How to change bad luck
Many people don’t buy the concept of curses. But many do, especially those who seem to go through extraordinarily long strings of adverse fortune.
Take the Chicago Cubs and their fans. Many believe they existed under the “Curse of the Billy Goat” for decades. The misfortune supposedly originated in 1945 when local tavern owner William Sianis brought his pet goat to game four of the World Series. After fans complained about the goat’s odor — which was enhanced by rain — officials forced Sianis to leave. As he did, an enraged Sianis reportedly proclaimed that the Cubs wouldn’t win that series or any other.
The Cubs subsequently lost that game and the series. It took until 2016 for the Cubs to play in another World Series, which Chicago won and, by many accounts, broke the curse. By then, fans had been tortured by various mishaps, most notably the Steve Bartman foul-ball incident in 2003.
Fans of Washington, D.C., MLB teams can relate. Before Halloween 2019, a D.C. team had won only one World Series in more than a century of suiting up a team. Many of those seasons were miserable. There were also 33 years without a team, when fans had to go root for the hated Orioles.
So how did fans and the team break this string of bad luck? Maybe it came down to something as simple as wearing a long-shelved cap, one with a fresh twist.
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The cap that helped change Washington, D.C., baseball's fortunes and put the Nationals in the World Series. [Shay photo]
