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490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?
Freakonomics Radio
The Curse of the Bambino
A lot of superstition in sport is about the idea that the athlete can control by a particular action. In cricket, there was one umpire who believed that this was so cursed that he had to hop up and down until the score pased beyond a hundred 11. The curse is a common form of sport superstition.
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