George Gmelch, a professional baseball player, portrays his perspective and ideas about the culture of baseball and baseball players in his article, “Baseball Magic.” Through his experience, baseball players try to control the outcomes of their performance by believing that the outcome of their performances are determined through luck (Gmelch). His argument is able to provide the idea of how baseball players believe that their rituals, taboos, and fetishes during their performances are purely based off of their fate. Baseball players feel as if they have empirical evidence. This empirical evidence leads to baseball players gaining control and repeating their behaviors which bring them luck during their performances (Gmelch).
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