Growing up, I never heard anyone mention the Curse, and it wasn't something Red Sox players on those teams talked about, in my memory.

The Black Sox players, it happened, weren't thrown out because they gambled.

Horn's catch-phrase was ka-pow, which he exclaims whenever a Sox player hit a home run.

The former slugger has been known to pass his wisdom on to the current Sox players and stars from time to time.

"It's not an accident that we were the first to come back from a 3-0 deficit," Henry said of his Red Sox players.

Is that the longest such streak by any Red Sox player?

He spoke before this series about how the Sox players enjoy each other and were primed for their first playoffs since 1993.

As a Red Sox player for 11 years, he had the opportunity to learn about discipline from one of the greats.

Who are some of your favorite Sox players?

Somehow I could never imagine any Red Sox player, now or in the past, being so willing to sacrifice his body, if not endanger it.