"In the sixth or seventh inning, the buzz started going around," he said. "It's one of those things. I'm not as superstitious. I wasn't naive."

That didn't stop others from telling him to hush and let history happen.

Rowley has been to two other MLB games. In September, he saw the Yankees on the same trip as his first Fenway experience. This spring's Boston trip was accompanied by another trip to Yankee Stadium.

In both cases, the Yankees lost but the Red Sox were pure magic.

"Boston was a lot more exciting — the fan support, the intensity, the whole city gets into baseball. In New York, I think there's just a lot more competing with it."

Though Rowley wasn't a Sox fan growing up, his younger brother was.

"I teased him because of the curse, but when they won the Series (2004), then we started being Boston fans," he said.

Rowley has been fielding media calls nationwide to to explain his extraordinary karma.

Asked if he thought his streak of witnessing no-hitters would spur fanatical Sox fans to fly him back for more games, Rowley joked, "Hopefully this will generate some offers. It would sure speed up my (chances for more) trips."

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