Jun 9, 2008 鈥 By Joe Kleinsasser 鈥 The New York Yankees made news this spring by spending about $50,000 to extract from the new stadium's concrete a David Ortiz shirt planted by a Boston Red Sox-obsessed construction worker hoping to hex his team's arch rivals.
To most people, spending that kind of money over a superstition or hex seems a bit extreme, as WSU sports psychologist Greg Buell explains.