NEW YORK (WCBS 880/ AP) -- So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx its new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey.
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Team officials watched on Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey, with slugger David Ortiz' name on it, from 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that's under construction.
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The team says a construction worker, recently buried the jersey there while on the job. Two other supervisors found the tattered shirt on Saturday.
The Yankees plan to donate the jersey to charity, and may pursue a lawsuit against the construction worker.
WCBS's Ginny Kosola was at the new Yankee Stadium to witness the removal of the jinxed Red Sox jersey. She said it took jack hammers to remove the tattered David Ortiz jersey.
Hole from which tattered jersey was pulled from
Yankees President, Randy Levine was also there to witness the extraction. He said, the location was revealed by workers on the site. The construction worker who placed it there was only on site one day.
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Yankees COO Lon Trost said the worker could face legal action. "We were in touch with the DA of the Bronx and the ADA and we were discussing, analyzing and understanding whether or not there is criminality invilved whether it is mischief or criminal mischief or trespassing or in fact nothing."
The Jersey is being donated to the Jimmy Fund; a Red Sox charity fund created to help children with cancer. The jersey can be auctioned
there.
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The Yankees raise money for children with cancer through their charity, the "Yankees Universe fund," so they decided to donate the David Ortiz shirt from the cement, along with a Yankees Universe T-shirt, to a similar Red Sox charity, "The Jimmy Fund."
"We decided why reward somebody who had very bad motives and was trying to do a very bad thing," said Yankees President Randy Levine. "So we're going to put it with a Yankee Universe shirt, and send it up to Boston to "The Jimmy Fund," which serves the same purpose up in Boston, to cure kids with cancer, hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off, and take an act that was a very bad act and turn it into something beautiful, and save some kids who are ill"
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