 The longtime competitive struggles of the team were fictionalized in the 1954 book "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant", which became the 1955 Broadway musical "Damn Yankees" and the 1958 film starring then "heart-throb" leading-man actor Tab Hunter).The plot centers on Joe Boyd, a middle-aged real estate salesman and long-suffering fan of the Washington Senators baseball club.In this musical comedy-drama of the Faust legend, Boyd sells his soul to the Devil and becomes slugger Joe Hardy, the "long ball hitter the Senators need that he'd sell his soul for" (as spoken by him in a throwaway line near the beginning of the drama).