Of Dirty Wax and Rabbits’ Feet
Some Major League Baseball pitchers hop over the chalk baseline on their way back to the dugout at the end of an inning because they know that if they don’t, something terrible will happen. Step on that chalk line, and you’re practically guaranteed to give up a grand slam in the next inning. For them, it’s almost a universal law. Yet other pitchers step on the line without a second thought. They’re not worried about some kind of karmic penalty from accidentally messing up the baseline, because they know that the real talismanic protection lies in wearing the same
