CURSED WITH A FOUR-HITTER
"Lefty Gomez, famed southpaw of another Yankee championship era, was heir to the general run of baseball superstitions. One of his pets, to ward off disaster, was to place his glove in a certain spot and position after he came off the mound. His teammate, George Selkirk, once made Gomez frantic by kicking the mitt every time Gomez dropped it. Lefty pitched a four-hit shutout and the iconoclastic Selkirk pointed out the fallacy of Gomez's beliefs. 'See,' he said. 'In spite of what I did to your glove and your superstition, you still shut them out.' 'Yeah,' replied Lefty, 'but before you started I had a no-hitter going.' "
-Max Kase, New York Journal-American (Baseball Digest, July 1957)
