Sports Shorts
The David Ortiz
By: Eddie Morgan
On Sunday April 13, Frank Gramarossa and Rich Corrado finished their excavation and proudly held up their new treasure: a buried David Ortiz jersey. The workers had plunged into the cement for two seemingly endless hours until they finally chipped two and a half feet under and removed the dusty and torn jersey.
After hearing word
that a Red-sox rooting construction worker placed the jersey in the cement in
hope of placing a curse on the Pinstripes, and receiving further detail about
its location on Saturday, the Yankees decided to turn the “bad, dastardly act”,
into a good cause. The Yankees decided
that it was best to dig it up and planned that once they located and removed it
from the site, they would clean it and send it to
While some may say that the media’s coverage of the situation as well as the Yankees’ reaction to it were overblown, the story was an interesting diversion from the bad news we are battered with every day we read the paper or watch news on television. The Yankees’ decision to turn the spectacle into an opportunity for a charitable cause was not only a positive play for the charity, it was also public relations for the team that money could not buy. Superstition or not, the excavation of the jersey and its aftermath was a positive experience for everyone involved except perhaps for the construction worker who could face criminal charges though his now-legendary fame in the hearts and minds of Redsox fans may more than make up for any punishment he may face.
Eddie Morgan is a
student at