Only Americans are afraid of the number 13

According to the guys at flipflopflyin.com, only 27 percent of Major League Baseball players are Latino, but nearly half of the players brave enough to don the unlucky No. 13 on their backs are Latino.

Venezuelans make up just 6.5 percent of all ballplayers, but almost a quarter of the guys wearing 13 hale from that nation.

Asdrubal Cabrera has been known to take things one step further: walking under a ladder before every plate appearance and using a black cat as his personal bat boy.