Baseball seems to have more superstitious oddities than any other sport. When I was in high school, we were to never, under any circumstance, step on the foul lines before the game started. Why? I have no idea. That’s what the upperclassmen told me during warmups one day, and for whatever reason, I believed it to be necessary.
These beliefs spill over to the major leagues, as was most recently described by ESPN’s Adam Marchand regarding rookie sensation Aaron Judge. Apparently, Judge puts in a new piece of gum every time he is retired at the plate.