Download or read book When Boston Still Had the Babe written by Bill Nowlin and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until Red Sox fans could relax (a bit) after expunging The Curse, it seemed taboo to study their last championship year, 1918, an overlooked season in the shadow of World War I with players leaving for military service or war-related work.Thirty researchers from the Society for American Baseball Research offer biographies of each man on this intriguing team, ranging from Babe Ruth and Harry Hooper to Red Bluhm, who batted only once.