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, the orange helmet with black tiger stripes continued to be the team's primary trademark.

However, it was to take another three years, and a change of coach, before the team's obvious potential was translated into tangible success.

However, 2009 also saw the team's attendance numbers plummet, leading to television blackouts and speculation that the team could eventually be moved or sold.

However, the team's poor play was the least of the Pilots ' problems.

However, once Ra has the local people gathered before the pyramid craft, several young villagers signal to Jackson that they have recovered the team's weapons.

However, the entire 1999 NHL Entry Draft was a major disappointment for the Thrashers, as all of their eleven draft picks were out of the NHL by the team's last season of existence ; Stefan played the most games for the Thrashers from that draft ( 414 games ).

However, fans were entertained regardless of the team's struggles.

However, tragedy struck hours after the team's first-round loss to the Bruins, when defenceman Steve Chiasson was thrown from his pickup truck and killed in a single-vehicle drunk-driving accident.

However, the coaching change did not help team's fortunes for the 2005 – 06 season.

However, the Pistons won the series in dominating fashion, defeating Los Angeles in five games for the team's third NBA Championship.

However, the sale was hampered by the team's murky ownership structure ; even some team officials ( including Crisp ) didn't know who really owned the team.

However, he was very visible and outspoken, and immediately pumped an additional $ 6 million into the team's payroll to turn it around.

However, as a junior, George became the team's starting running back and went on to rush for 1, 442 yards and 12 touchdowns.

However, Taylor declared the innings closed, opting to share the record with Bradman, and making the team's chances of winning the game paramount.

However, with Gruden's prior knowledge of his " old " team, his " new " team's defense dominated the contest.

However, their tournament was overshadowed by a very public and bitter spat between McCarthy and the team's star player Roy Keane, who was sent home without having kicked a ball on the eve of the tournament.

However, he suffered a groin injury and missed his team's next four games.

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 effects of the economic depression and poor performance on the field combined to reduce the team's fan base.

However the team's next game resulted in a 10-6 loss to the Frankford Yellow Jackets.

However with the team's former rivals, the Beavers, out of the picture, the Marines had no strong local opposition.

However, towards the end of the season, the Maroons management struggled to meet its financial obligations, and there were published reports of a strike among the team's players.

However during the team's second game, Thorpe injured his ribs and was lost for the season.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

However, churches that claim apostolic succession in ministry distinguish this from doctrinal orthodoxy, holding that " it is possible to have valid orders coming down from the apostles, and yet not to have a continuous spiritual history coming down from the apostles ".

However the outback and the history of its exploration and settlement provides Australians with a culturally valued backdrop, and stories of swagmen, squatters, and bushrangers are central to the national ethos.

However, even early in its history some star players, such as James Creighton of Excelsior, received compensation, either secretly or indirectly.

However, Bede ignores the fact that at the time of Augustine's mission, the history between the two was one of warfare and conquest, which, in the words of Barbara Yorke, would have naturally " curbed any missionary impulses towards the Anglo-Saxons from the British clergy.

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

However, given the long history of control by the Hudson's Bay Company, there was some uncertainty as to the date of reception.

However, throughout history there have been exceptions, with Mutt and Jeff being an early ( if not the earliest ) case in which the creator owned his works.

However, cultural imperialism has been used as a framework by scholars to explain phenomena in the areas of international relations, anthropology, education, science, history, literature, and sports.

However, since primogeniture and the Salic Law provided for the succession of the French throne for most of French history, here is a list of all the predecessors of the French monarchy, all the French kings from Hugh until Charles, and all the Legitimist pretenders thereafter.

However, perhaps because of the trade of Walker and several consecutive losing seasons, the team fell all the way to fourteenth in the National League in attendance ; for the first time in team history, the Rockies drew under 2 million fans for the season.

However, the term " German " in the title was interpreted in the broadest possible sense, and its initial royal patronage made the connection clear between a perceived unity of Germanness in history and 19th century Germanness.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

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However, this is refuted by the full account of the history of the multiple-camera setup.

However, Thomas Crow argues that this path " proved to be less a way forward than a cul-de-sac for history painting.

However, most notable anarchists in history have been less radical, retaining altruism and a sense of the importance of the individual that is appreciable but does not go as far as egoism.

" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

However, the monarchy was not the only ruling power in French history to use the symbol of Hercules to declare its power.

However, his invasions do mark a turning-point in British history.

However, the history of human sexuality shows that attitudes and behaviour have varied across cultures.

However, Italian as a language used in the Italian Peninsula has a longer history.