World Series MVP Steve Pearce shaved off his playoff beard Thursday morning at Gillette Shaving Headquarters in South Boston, carrying on a championship tradition that many other Boston athletes– including Zdeno Chara, David Ortiz, Tim Thomas and Julian Edelman– have done before him.
Pearce has been growing his beard throughout the postseason, a superstition that a lot of athletes take part in out of fear that shaving will throw off their game.
“You don’t want to mess with a hot streak,” Pearce said. “We were playing pretty good baseball so I just kept growing it… We’re holding up the trophy, aren’t we?