Yankees show a costly side of superstition

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. http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/wsunews/news/?nid=260