hockey superstitions

  • Baseball Players are Big Babies

    When Lou Piniella was a player for the New York Yankees, he once flung his batting helmet in the dugout in anger and grazed the head of his manager Bob Lemon.
     

     “But that was a ricochet,” said Piniella’s Yankees’ teammate Fred Stanley, defending his buddy.  “It bounced off two things first. It was not an all-out assault.”
     

    Just the same, Lemon started wearing a helmet in the dugout after that, just in case.