However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

However, the Royals lost to the New York Yankees in three straight American League Championship Series encounters.

However, they failed to advance to the American League Championship Series as they lost the American League Divisional Series in three straight games to the eventual World Series champion New York Yankees.

However, the Giants lost the series four games to three to the New York Yankees.

However, despite being ahead of the Yankees by one game right before the series, the Red Sox lost both games they had to play against the Yankees.

However, relations between the two teams were rocky, with the Giants harboring resentment towards the Yankees.

However, during the 1920s and 1930s, the Yankees ' popularity was such that crowds in excess of 80, 000 were not uncommon.

However, this would have required the Yankees to play their home games at Shea Stadium in Queens, the regular home of the New York Mets.

However, Jackson injured himself running the bases in Game 2 of the 1981 ALCS and missed the first two games of the World Series, both of which the Yankees won.

However, Kansas City once again lost to the Yankees in the ALCS, but not before Brett hit three home runs off Catfish Hunter in Game Three, becoming the second player to hit three home runs in an LCS game ( Bob Robertson was the first, having done so in Game two of the 1971 National League Championship Series ).

However, after being drafted by the Yankees, Don decided to begin his professional career.

However, Moran's son Tom briefly served as the team's interim coach that year after Charley took a leave of absence to officiate in the 1927 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

However the team soon rebounded with a four game winning streak over the Dayton Triangles ( 28-0 ), Yankees ( 12-6 ), Pottsville Maroons ( 13-6 ) and Detroit Wolverines ( 7-0 ).

However, the MLB Players ' Union objected to Rodriguez's willingness to sacrifice a huge amount of his $ 250 million contract to facilitate a deal to Boston, and the New York Yankees then struck a deal with Texas to bring A-Rod ( who gave up $ 14 million with union approval ) to their team.

However, the Yankees subsequently caught fire, eventually tying Boston atop the standings on September 10 after sweeping a four-game series at Fenway Park, an event known to Red Sox fans as the " Boston Massacre.

However Pyle's Yankees were given the NFL franchise that was asked for in the first place.

However that same season Mays, pitching then for the Yankees, played in a World Series that others later would accuse him of helping to throw, bringing back still-lingering memories of the Black Sox scandal from just two years prior.

However, the Padres lost to the New York Yankees in a four-game sweep, despite Gwynn hitting. 500 in the series.

However, during this time, the Yankees team hitting streak ended in a rain-shortened official game on July 12, 1990, after.

However, he only batted. 152 in the 1921 World Series, which the Giants won over the New York Yankees in eight games.

However, the Yankees were still reeling from the 1994 strike when they won in 1996, because many members of the 1994 team were not there in 1996 and were gone as a result of the strike.

However, had the unplayed remainder of the 1994 season seen the Braves miss the playoffs, the Major League record for consecutive playoff appearances would now belong to the New York Yankees, who had 13 straight postseason appearances from 1995 to 2007 ( and possibly 1994 would have made it 14, with the streak starting a year earlier ).

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

However, Biblical scholars frequently attested to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manuscripts were uncovered and scholarship advanced.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

However, they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper.

However, the statistical offices of both governments were assigned responsibility for the planning and analysis of these statistics.

However, they were hostile to Jewish Orthodoxy, professing to believe in Judaism `` but in a moderate way ''.

However, the positions of all parties and leaders were constantly shifting.

However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.

However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.

However, recent work suggests that some agnostids were benthic predators, engaging in cannibalism and possibly manifesting pack-hunting behavior.

However, they were generally occupied for a mere 30 years or less.

However, data from the National Statistical Service shows that there were only 65, 000 foreigners staying in Armenian hotels in 2009.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

However, tyrannosaurid forelimbs were extremely small for their body size and retained only two digits.

However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.

However, no incidents of violence against spring breakers were reported.

However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

However, this was halted as a report reached Constantinople that the Safavids were invading the Ottoman Empire, causing a period of panic, turning the Sultan's attention away from Russia.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.