A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new baseball stadium was foiled when the offending shirt was removed from its burial spot. After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jack-hammered through the concrete and pulled it out on Sunday. The Yankees said it learned that a Red Sox-supporting construction worker buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday. Yankees president Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was. “The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York,” Levine said. “But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?” On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt's location. “We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find it,” said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site. It took about five hours of drilling on Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said. On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the shirt from the rubble. In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters “Red Sox” on the front. It was a David Ortiz jersey, No. 34. Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office. “We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual,” he said. “It's typical Yankees,” Castignoli told the Boston Herald on Monday. “It's not like I snuck in there. It didn't do any structural damage. I didn't put anyone in harm's way.” Castignoli, 46, said he worked just a single day at the stadium project and planted the jersey. “It was worth it,” he said. Levine said the shirt would be cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund, a charity affiliated with Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Along with that, New York will send a Yankees Universe T-shirt, which is sold to benefit Memorial Sloan
