Cursed No More

By William Trowbridge

June 19, 2016. Oakland, California. Down three games to one against the greatest regular-season team in NBA history, the Cleveland Cavaliers stood at the edge of another Cleveland sports disaster - another entry in a catalog of heartbreak that had been growing for fifty-two years.

Then LeBron James made a block that shouldn't have been possible. Kyrie Irving hit a shot that will echo forever. And 52 years of accumulated suffering finally came to an end.

But the championship was only meaningful because of everything that came before it. Cursed No More tells the full story - from Cleveland's last championship in 1964 through the frozen playoff losses, the betrayals, the relocated franchise, and the night one kid from Akron finally brought the city home.

This flagship volume in the Infamous Moments in Cleveland Sports series moves through all eight defining heartbreaks in sequence - Red Right 88, The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, The Move, The Mesa, The Decision - not as separate tragedies but as chapters in a single story about a city that kept showing up. Every crushing loss, every named moment, every winter of waiting contributed to the weight that made June 19, 2016 feel unlike any championship victory in American sports history.

Featuring 48 atmospheric black-and-white illustrations and drawing on decades of Cleveland sports history, Cursed No More is the definitive account of the longest wait and the night it finally ended.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1972510002
• ISBN13: 9781972510001
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Harbor Ridge Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"