Read the article "Baseball Magic" by George Gmelch, watch the video lecture "Rituals and Cultural Reproduction" and then answer the following questions on the discussion board. Start your thread with your rite of passage from question #2. Ideally this discussion board will help you prepare for your final paper by making you read the article and think about which ritual you want to focus on.
Choose one or two interesting rituals from “Baseball Magic.” Describe the ritual, fetishes, mana and taboos involved (if any) and discuss why Gmelch thinks they players do this. What inspired him to write this article?