These are some of the most famous baseball curses

The Curse of the Bambino is probably the most famous baseball curse. Legend has it that it began in 1919 when the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

The Red Sox had won 15 World Series at that point, three of them with Babe Ruth. The Bambino went on to win three more World Series with the New York Yankees.

Boston went for 86 years without winning the World Series until 2004 when they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and finally broke the curse.

From 1946 to 2016, the Chicago Cubs fell victim to the so-called Curse of the Billy Goat.

The Chicago Cubs were once one of the most successful teams in the major leagues, with 16 World Series victories between 1876 and 1945.

It all supposedly changed on October 6, 1945, when Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis was not allowed into Wrigley Field because of his pet goat.

Sianis got offended and said that the Chicago Cubs would win no more until they allowed a goat into the stadium. The team wouldn’t win the World Series again until 2016, over 70 years later!

However, the Cubs aren’t the only Second City team with a first-rate drought. That dubious honor belongs to the Chicago White Sox and their Curse of Shoeless Joe.

In 1919, eight players of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from professional gambler Arnold Rothstein, pictured here.

The scandal led to these eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, being banned from baseball for life. It also led to the creation of the position of Baseball Commissioner.

The Chicago White Sox would finally get their chance to win the World Series in 2005, one year after the Boston Red Sox.

Baseball curses aren’t something exclusive to American culture. Since 1985, the Osaka-based Hanshin Tigers have allegedly been cursed by the ghost of Colonel Sanders. Yes, the KFC guy.

In 1985, the Hanshin Tigers won the Japanese series. Fans grabbed the statue of Colonel Sanders in front of an Osaka KFC restaurant and threw it into the Dotonbori River.

Since then, the Hanshin Tigers have managed to get (and lose) the Japan Series in 2003, 2005, and 2014.

Meanwhile, the statue of Colonel Sanders was recovered from the Dotonbori River in 2009 and placed in a KFC near the stadium of the Hanshin Tigers.

The Cleveland Guardians (formerly, the Cleveland Indians) is another team that has been dealing with a curse, though less famous than the ones associated with the Chicago Cubs or the Boston Red Sox.

Known as the Curse of Rocky Colavito (pictured), it supposedly was born when the team traded right fielder Rocky Colavito for Detroit Tigers Harvey Kuenn in 1960.

Since then, the Cleveland Guardians have played the World Series in 1995, 1997, and 2016 but haven’t won the World Series since 1948.