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Baseball Players Strange Rituals
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Baseball players have a few strange rituals before and during the game, fearing if they fail to do them will relsult in a loss. Here's a few.
| | Due to a death threat Chicago White Sox Manager Tony La Russa, started wearing a protective vest. He covered the vest with a warmup jacket — and when the Sox rattled off a winning streak, he kept wearing the jacket, even after discarding the vest. |
| | Larry Walker is obsessed with the number “3.” He wears No. 33, was married on Nov. 3 at 3:33 p.m., and bought tickets for 33 disadvantaged kids when he played in Montreal, to be seated in Section 333 at Olympic Stadium. His last contract his current contract included a joint $3,333,333 donation to children’s organizations in British Columbia and Colorado. Finally he has 3 kids. |
| | Wade Boggs ate chicken before every game, woke up at the same time every day, took exactly 150 ground balls in practice. He always ended his pregame infield practice by stepping, in order, on the third-, second- and first-base bags, stepping on the baseline, taking two steps in the coach’s box and trotting to the dugout in exactly four steps. |
| | Turk Wendell chewed four pieces of black licorice when he pitched, spit them out after each inning, brushed his teeth in the dugout, and leaped (not stepped) over the baseline. |
| | Kevin Rhomberg's superstition was the need to touch back someone who had just touched him. |
| | Pitcher Greg Swindell would bite the tip off one of his fingernails before each start and hold it in his mouth for good luck the entire game. |
| | John Smoltz, who once was doing jumping jacks in the clubhouse during an Atlanta Braves rally,was afraid to stop because he didn’t want to be held responsible for the end of the Braves’ scoring. He ended up doing jumping jacks for nearly half an hour. |
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