George Gmelch Baseball Magic Analysis

The study of baseball magic was done by George Gmelch he study on the Detroit Tiger Farm team Dennis grossini was a pitcher of the team for the first three months of winning season he would wake up at 10:00am every single time, and around 1 pm he would go to the closest restaurant for two cups of ice tea and a tuna sandwich. When Gmelch asked grossini which part of the ritual was more important he said one can’t tell which one is important so it all becomes necessary? There are three important essentials activities of the game which is pitching, hitting, and fielding in the first two are the most important that play a role in baseball and finally the pitcher is the least to control the outcome of his own efforts. In any case of how well a
The last one is fielding it’s the last role that doesn’t play as much in baseball. The questions always ask is how does the risk and uncertainty in pitching and hitting affect the players? Gmelch became so interested in these questions when he was a ball player and an anthropology student. It was shortly after the end of one baseball game Gmelch took an anthropology course called Magic, religion, and witchcraft. As he was in class listing to the professor describe the magic rituals of the Trobriand Islanders. It had occurred to Gmelch that these so called people did wasn’t all that different from what his teammates did for good luck and confidence at the ball park. Routines and rituals were the most common way player’s attempt to reduce their feelings uncertainty is develop a routine daily everything has to be the same the players don’t like anything
Breaking a taboo some players think that it leads to bad luck or undesirable consequences. Many taboos take place off the field, out of public view when a pitcher is scheduled to start he will avoid activities that will weaken his strength there’s others were on his team that would not eat certain types of food. Also there’s fetishes a good luck charm is a material object to believe in superpower that can protects the owner of whoever is holding it. The fetishized object may a new possession something a player found that happens to be a good luck charm for him. During streaks hitting or winning sometimes player wear the same clothes day after day once Gmelch had changed into his sweatshirts midway through the game for seven whole days and nights