Special Report: Is There Really A Curse?

We've tried "Reverse The Curse" ice cream...

We've tried demolishing a Watertown house where the Babe's wife once lived...

We've even tried scaling Mt. Everest, to leave a photo of the great Yankee slugger in a Red Sox uniform.

I even stooped to begging in the Bronx last year...

But did any of this foolishness reverse the curse of the bambino?

Dick Johnson, Museum curator
"I don't believe in any curses."

Dick Johnson, of the Sports Museum of New England, says the only curse the Red Sox have had over the years is sub-par pitching, and mismanagement.

Dick Johnson, Museum curator
"Pee Wee Reece was property of the Red Sox and they let him go for nothing. And Jackie Robinson tried out for the Red Sox in 1945 and they said, see ya later."

Still, Cardinals fans were doing their best to harness the Bambino's curse. But if an appearance by the Babe's ghost at Yankee Stadium didn't rattle the boys from Boston, would anything?

No doubt, Red Sox Nation has had its share of mortal wounds.

But Dick Johnson says, none of it - not even Bucky Dent driving a stake through our hearts in 1978-- was about owner Harry Frazee selling the Babe for a $100,000 in 1920.

For one thing, Babe Ruth was a pitcher, who wanted to hit more.

Dick Johnson, Museum curator
"He had been a displinary problem from day one. He was hard to manage. He could be impossible at times. He was a bad teammate. It’s almost if he wanted out of town."

In 2004, another immensely talented, and seemingly unhappy, Sox star forced the team to make a move. Just like in 1920. Curse or no curse, Red Sox Nation is sick of it.

Good news though: it looks like, thanks to Manny and company, we won't have to hear about it for much longer.