Baseball is a sport with a long history of superstition, the two often deeply intertwined, as players have engaged in sometimes elaborate routines believed to positively influence their play on the diamond.

Arguably the national pastime’s top practitioner of these ritualistic behaviors was Wade Boggs , a legendary hitter who claimed he needed that undefined edge to be successful.

“There are [278] players in the Hall of Fame and I'm the only one with ‘superstitions’ on his plaque,” the Class of 2005 Hall of Famer said to Jon Paul Morosi in a recent episode of “The Road to Cooperstown” podcast. “So, I think that that's the one thing that carried me over the hump. And I've always said I'd rather be lucky than good. And that was one of the reasons why I had so many superstitions. I wanted

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