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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, 03:09 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....

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Wilbur Wood [View all] 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