Superstitions-everybody has them. Don’t walk under a ladder or don’t break a mirror because you will have bad luck for seven years and forget about the number 13-take Alex Rodriguez for example, whose career has taken a nose dive since switching to #13.

The most superstitious people on the planet are not wackos who run around with tinfoil on their heads.

No, they just wear jerseys and nine pairs of socks for good luck. The most superstitious breed are athletes.

With the repetitive motion of a game, players come up with the wackiest and quirkiest routines to put them in “the zone.”

Hall of Fame Third baseman Wade Boggs, is the proud owner of the weirdest superstitions. Boggs partook in some weird rituals.

Between eating chicken every night before a game and writing “Chia,” the Hebrew word for “life,” in the dirt before batting, and

starting batting practice at exactly 5:17 a.m.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey, gets personal with his bats; he gives them nicknames
One bat is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver and the other is Hrunting. Dickey, an avid reader, named Orcrist from The Hobbit and Hrunting from the tale of Beowulf.

However, baseball players are not the only ones with weird pre-game rituals.
Basketball player Michael Jordan used to wear his old University of North Carolina shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform. He claimed it was for good luck.

On the weirder side, Bruce Gardiner, an NHL forward for the Ottawa Senators, used to dip his hockey stick in the locker room toilets before each game.

Gardiner’s reasoning was because he treated his stick too nicely, and he needed to teach his stick to respect him on the ice.

It’s known to most people that athletes are a different type of people- they are driven and focused.
But one thing that sets them apart from the rest of the world is their unfailing ability to believe in “the beyond” and their funny rituals to give them a winning edge.