When the Boston Red Sox rested the World Series Championship from the New York Yankees in early 2005, they ended 86 years of the so-called Bambino Curse, but Steve Goldman and the rest of the team from Baseball Prospectus are here to tell you the real reasons behind the Sox’s new strategy and sudden success. Goldman gives fans an insightfuly and deeply researched study into the real reasons behind how baseball games are won and lost, including what led the Sox to understand Johnny Damon’s true value and make Keith Foulke a closer as opposed to Mariano Rivera. Through carefully researched evidence that builds suspense in its rundowns and analyses of the historic seven-game AL playoff, Goldman and his team proved that the real reason behind the curse of the Red Sox wasn’t because of Babe, but decades of inept and bigoted ownership and management.