Witch Vs. Witchdoctor

04/27/2014

Witch Vs. Witchdoctor

Why did I write a book about the 1976 baseball season? Because stuff like this went down:

After 10 straight losses in May 1976, things were looking so bad for the Red Sox that a Boston radio station hired Laurie Cabot, a genuine Salem witch, to remove a curse that had allegedly been cast upon the team by an Orioles-employed witch doctor from Kenya. Cabot is pictured here examining the aura of Dwight Evans before a May 13 game in Cleveland. (Photo credit: G. Paul Burnett/AP

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Dan Epstein

Dan Epstein is the author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s and Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76, both published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. He writes about baseball, music and other cultural obsessions for a variety of outlets and publications. He lives in Southern California, and is available for speaking engagements.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

04/27/2014