Standing in a crowd of blue and white-clad baseball fans in downtown Toronto Wednesday evening, Maureen Whitehead was kept warm by her George Springer jersey.

But as the first pitch approached in Game 5 of World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers, superstition said it would have to come off.

"This jersey I can wear before the game and after the game, but I cannot wear during the game," she said.

"Every time I wore it [during a game], they lost, so I said, 'OK, done with that.' But I love the jersey, so I want to wear it before and after."

Another superstition for Whitehead includes a fifth-inning change of scenery, and she typically goes upstairs to a spare bedroom in her home.

Her husband, Terry, is not allowed in that room for the rest of the game. He s

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