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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