Back in 2007 (seems like only yesterday!) a Boston Red Sox fan named Gino Castignoli thought he could put a hex curse voodoo hoodoo on the New York Yankees by (get this!) burying a #34 David (Big Papi) Red Sox jersey in the concrete foundation of the under-construction New New New Yankee Stadium in the fashionable South Bronx area of New York.
Any spell-caster will tell you, it's best not to babble about the spell you cast, but apparently Gino told everyone he knew, and the Yankees found out about it. So, on April 13, 2008, they had a guy with a jackhammer (they're easy to find in New York) chip his way through two feet of concrete to get the cursed shirt out.
And the Yankees did a beneficent thing. They donated the jersey to the Jimmy Fund, a well-known charity supporting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Auctioned off on eBay, the tattered shirt brought in $175,100 for a good cause.
For the record, the Yankees won the World Series in 2009 and not once since, while the Sox won it all in 2013 and 2018. There is no sure way to determine whether the curse had anything to do with that.
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