BABE RUTH AND THE BASEBALL CURSE by David A. Kelly

• Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
• Publisher: Random House
• Release Date: February 24, 2009
• ISBN: (paperback) 9780375856037
• ISBN: (hardcover) 9780375956034

BABE RUTH AND THE BASEBALL CURSE is a fast-paced account of Babe Ruth, the Boston Red Sox, and the terrible curse that seemed to follow the Red Sox after they traded their star pitcher to the New York Yankees.

Before 1918, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable. They won World Series after World Series, thanks in part to their charismatic pitcher-slugger Babe Ruth. But some people on the Red Sox felt the Babe was more trouble than he was worth, and he was traded away to one of the worst teams in baseball, the New York Yankees. From then on, the Yankees became a golden team. And the Red Sox? For over 80 years, they just couldn’t win another World Series. Then, in 2004, along came a scruffy, scrappy Red Sox team. Could they break Babe Ruth’s curse and win it all?

Christian “Mac” Barrett is a fifth grade “Godfather” who runs a business operation out of the fourth stall of the boy’s bathroom and has the answer to everyone’s problems — be it help with a bully, test answers, candy, or even dates with girls.  But his business is threatened when Staples, a bookie and high school dropout, sets up shop in Mac’s school.  Now Mac has to deal not only with the day-to-day problems of running his business, but also a legendary villain and his group of high school lackeys who seem intent on taking down his operation for good.