NY Post
You’ve got to give the Post credit for keeping on top of the Yankees jinx jersey story. After locating the construction-worker culprit as well as photographic evidence of the dirty deed, they now have some happy results to report. Two Yankee Stadium construction workers, after reading the Post story, remembered Gino Castignoli, the Yankee-hating worker who planted the shirt last year. More importantly, they knew where he was working on the day the shirt was supposedly buried–a service corridor behind home plate near the third base side.
Jackhammers were brought in to excavate a 2-foot by 3-foot hole in the concrete floor. After five hours of digging, the tattered remains of the offending jersey were located and removed from the ground.
Reached for to comment on the exhumation, Castignoli had some words for Hank Steinbrenner (George’s son who now runs the team with his brother Hal) “Tell Hank he can come meet me if he wants to try – and tell him to bring [Jorge] Posada, because he’s the one Yankee I can’t stand.” The Steinbrenner son also had some choice words for Castignoli–”I hope his coworkers kick the s*** out of him.”
