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kairos12

(13,242 posts) Thu Mar 22, 2018, 12:51 PM Mar 2018

Wilbur Wood

July 20, 1973. Last man to be the starting pitcher in both games of a doubleheader. It was against the Yankees. He lost both games.

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Wilbur Wood (Original Post) kairos12 Mar 2018 OP

Wood is among a handful of pitchers who were reknown knucklerballers, and I had the beachbum bob Mar 2018 #1

Swatting At Flies ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #2

beachbum bob

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1. Wood is among a handful of pitchers who were reknown knucklerballers, and I had the

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 02:09 PM

Mar 2018

pleasure of watching him pitch several games and made some of the great batters look like they were swatting at flies....he is also among the few in the post WW2 era who won 20 games and lost 20 games in the same season, (24-20 in 1973).

Had he not been injured in 1976 who knows how many games he would have won...

He was a great White Sox pitcher....

ProfessorGAC

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Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 28, 2018, 01:27 PM

Mar 2018

I forget who said it, but somebody said of him "Hitting Wilbur's knuckleball is like trying to hit a hummingbird with a pipe cleaner." One of the Chicago radio guys doing the game. I forget who but remember that line like it happened yesterday.

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