Curt Schilling giving an all new meaning to the Boston Red Sox - Part 1
Curt Schilling is a former Major League Baseball player. He has quite a record of being on World Series winnings teams like the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001 and the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and 2007.
He played a crucial part in leading the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993. When retiring he had a career post season record of 11-2 along with a .846 winning percentage. Although all the reasons listed above are worth being known for, whenever
Schilling’s name is brought up, it always rings the bell of a ‘bloody’ sock in everyone mind.
The historical 2004 World Series that the Red Sox won was one of the most dramatic in recent Major League Baseball history. The grit and determination could be seen in what Boston put in to win the Championship, 84 years after the supposed Curse of the Bambino
was out upon them. The story goes that after the trade of Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920, a curse was put upon the Red Sox and that is why they couldn’t win any championships for almost a century.
Schilling pitched Game 2 of the 2004 World Series, mere days after a complicated surgery to repair a ruptured tendon sheath on his right ankle. This was quite a feat and his struggle could be seen as the cameras zoomed in on his sock which was soaking with
blood. Schilling earned himself and Boston a victory that would be remembered for decades to come.
Schilling had sutures stitched into his right ankle which were supposed to hold together an injured tendon in its place so he would be able to pitch in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS. The procedure was repeated for Game 2 of the World Series. In both matches, whenever
the camera’s zoomed in towards Schilling’s feet, what appeared to be blood could be clearly seen seeping through the material.
The Hall of Fame now has the ultimate ‘red sock’ to complement that Red Sox’s victory in 2004. Curt Schilling donated his bloody sock to the Hall of Fame where it is exhibited, celebrating the team’s four game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
"It was blood. You can choose to believe whatever you need to, but facts are facts," Schilling said. "The 25 guys that were in that locker room, the coaches, they all know it. In the end nothing else really matters. The people that need to believe otherwise
are people with their own insecurities and issues."
Since this is baseball and cheaters have started emerging in the best of players that no one would have ever doubted, a new controversy picks up heat. Many have started believing the Curt Schilling famed ‘bloody red sock’ wasn’t anything more than a publicity
stunt.
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