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...fans a redemption story to beat all other redemption stories. As Washington attorney Bob Kirk, a Boston native, stood watching the celebration on the field in St. Louis, Mo., he talked about his father, who died of cancer last December. "His last words to me were, 'Have they signed [pitcher Curt] Schilling?'" Kirk remembers. "I promised him that if he pulled through, I'd take him to see this. I wanted to be here for him. I feel a little angel over...
Notable facts about him presented on his website’s biography (bunning.senate.gov) reveal something interesting by around the third paragraph. Bunning is, if you didn’t know, a Hall of Fame hurler, “the second pitcher in history…to record 1,000 strikeouts and 100 wins in both the National and American Leagues.” When he retired, he was also second to Walter Johnson on the all-time strikeout list...
...factor in the 2004 curse reverse was Red Sox pitching. Following an uneven beginning, pitcher after pitcher handled the Yankees’ “superstars” and the Cardinals’ sluggers. Pedro Martinez was finally able to step away from his New York fear, while Tim Wakefield’s knuckleballs proved too much even for his own catcher Jason Varitek and, improbably, Derek Lowe was just as strong as the other aces...
...built on stats and mental snapshots of games from decades before. They know, if only through oral tradition, that St. Louis won the 1946 World Series because of Boston shortstop Johnny Pesky's late throw to the plate and that in 1967 three wins by the Cards' magnificent pitcher Bob Gibson trumped the awesome batting of that sainted Sox Carl Yastrzemski. Fans on each side will surely remind themselves that those Series went the full seven, with St. Louis winning both...
Everybody saw pitcher Curt Schilling. He's the kind of guy--smart, tough, gifted, spitting self-confidence--who sees a curse as a challenge. Schilling, brought to Boston last November specifically to beat the Yankees, amassed 21 victories but came up lame for the first game of the ALCS. New York truncheoned the cripple for six runs in three innings en route to a 10-7 win. It appeared that Schilling, with a dislocated peroneal tendon in his ankle, could not start until late in the series--if the Sox could get to late. But doctors (first testing their unique...