DOM DiMAGGIO, TED WILLIAMS, BOBBY DOERR, JOHNNY PESKY & JOE DOBSON

THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO, PART 2 ...
A POWERFUL RED SOX TEAM FAILS
IN THE WORLD SERIES ...

September 9, 1946 ... No game scheduled ... Thousands of baseball fans poured into Boston from all over New England to enter the mad race for World Series tickets at the midnight zero hour. Avid ticket seekers stood in long lines at the main post office, the South Postal Annex, and it all Western Union offices in the city. Traffic jams of major proportions develop throughout downtown Boston as fans from distant points, as well as those in Boston, walk for a minute's head start starting applications to the Red Sox ticket office.

Western Union said it expected to handle 10,000 money order transactions before 8 AM. Postal money orders during the day, numbered between 7000 and 10,000 purchased. At 11 PM the post office was forced to open extra windows to handle the increasing crowds. The crowd increased at the federal building, until automobiles were strung all the way to the top of Beacon Hill, waiting their turn to proceed to Post Office Square.

Red Sox owner, Tom Yawkey, arrived in Detroit this morning and wishes to throw a personal party for his players the night they clinched the pennant. Neither Ted Williams nor Bobby Doerr went fishing today as planned. They had plans with some personal friends who are unable to make it.