The Curse of the Kid

The Curse of the Kid is a curse put on the Elwood City Grebes by a kid watching a game from atop a building in 1918. The Grebes had won the 1918 World Championships, with an Out of the Park homerun by one of the Grebes Players. The ball landed in a gutter on of building behind the stadium. The ball eventually rolled down to the ground, and the boy from the curse caught it.

Onced he'd caught the ball, Horace P. Krane, owner of the Grebes, ordered that the boy give the ball to him, because he owned it. The boy then said, "With this ball, I put a curse on your crummy team, you'll never win another championship again."

Lift of the Curse
The Curse of the Kid, was lifted 87 years after it's origin. A relative of Horace P. Krane, His 2nd cousin's, nephew's, niece, found the cursed ball in her attic, and went to the Kid's tomb and put the ball there. -''Harry, Bitzi Baxter's boyfriend. ''However, the curse still may have been lifted because of this, because the Grebes did become the world Champions.