86 Facts About Curt Schilling

Curtis Montague Schilling was born on November 14,1966 and is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who is a commentator for conservative media outlet BlazeTV.

Curt Schilling helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series appearance in 1993, and won championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox.

Curt Schilling is a member of the 3,000 strikeout club and has the highest strikeout-to-walk ratio of any of its inactive members.

Curt Schilling is tied for third for the most 300-strikeout seasons.

Curt Schilling released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in February 2012.

Related searches

Curt Schilling played for Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona before attending Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona in 1985.

Curt Schilling began his professional career with the Elmira Pioneers, then a Red Sox minor-league affiliate.

Curt Schilling joined an Astros organization that was for sale and lightening its payroll by going with younger, inexpensive players.

Curt Schilling was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for pitcher Jason Grimsley on April 2,1992.

Curt Schilling led the Phillies to an upset against the two-time defending National League champion Atlanta Braves in the National League Championship Series.

Curt Schilling was named to the NL All-Star team in 1997,1998, and 1999 and started the 1999 game.

Curt Schilling either led or tied for the Phillies leader in wins, complete games, shutouts, and ERA among starters each season from 1997 to 1999, averaging 16 wins per season over those three years despite the team never finishing the season with a winning record.

Curt Schilling was traded to the Diamondbacks on July 26,2000, for first baseman Travis Lee and pitchers Vicente Padilla, Omar Daal, and Nelson Figueroa.

Curt Schilling shared the 2001 World Series MVP Award with teammate Randy Johnson.

On September 16,2004, Curt Schilling won his 20th game of 2004 for the Red Sox, becoming the fifth Boston pitcher to win 20 or more games in his first season with the team, and the first since Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley in 1978.

On October 19,2004, Curt Schilling won Game 6 of the 2004 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees.

Curt Schilling pitched Game 2 of the 2004 World Series for the Red Sox against the St Louis Cardinals.

Curt Schilling was runner-up in Cy Young voting in 2004, this time to Minnesota Twins hurler Johan Santana, who was a unanimous selection, receiving all 28 first-place votes.

Curt Schilling began 2005 on the disabled list due to recurrent ankle injuries.

Curt Schilling eventually returned to the starting rotation and continued to struggle.

Curt Schilling has the highest ratio of strikeouts to walks of any pitcher with at least 3,000 strikeouts, and is one of four pitchers to reach the 3,000-K milestone before reaching 1,000 career walks.

In January 2007, Curt Schilling announced on the Dennis and Callahan show that after talking with his family, he had changed his mind and did not want to retire at the conclusion of the 2007 season.

Curt Schilling sought to negotiate an extension to his current contract, but Red Sox executives announced that they would not negotiate with him until after the season citing Schilling's age and physical condition as factors in their decision.

Curt Schilling went on to say he would become a free agent at the end of the season, for the first time in his career, and would not negotiate with the Red Sox during the 15 days after the end of the World Series when the team has exclusive negotiating rights with potential free agents.

Curt Schilling gave up a two-out single to Oakland's Shannon Stewart, who lined a 95-mph fastball to right field for the A's only hit.

Related searches

Curt Schilling did start again in the sixth game of the series, pitching seven complete innings during which he recorded five strikeouts, surrendering no walks with only two earned runs to gain the victory and force a Game 7.

Curt Schilling said he would seek a one-year deal, and according to ESPN First Take and his own blog page 38 Pitches.

Curt Schilling later signed a one-year deal with the Boston Red Sox for the 2008 season.

Curt Schilling missed all of the 2008 season because of a shoulder injury.

On June 18,2008, Curt Schilling left the team to be reevaluated after suffering pain when throwing off the mound.

On June 20,2008 Curt Schilling stated on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan show that he would undergo season-ending surgery and that he had possibly thrown the last pitch of his career.

On June 23,2008, Curt Schilling underwent biceps surgery, during which a small undersurface tear on the rotator cuff was discovered and stitched, and a separation of the labrum was repaired.

On March 23,2009, Curt Schilling officially announced his retirement from professional baseball after 20 seasons.

Curt Schilling was selected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2012.

Curt Schilling will be eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the Today's Game Committee in December 2022.

Curt Schilling combined his endurance with pinpoint control, especially on his fastball.

Curt Schilling's "out" pitch was a split-finger fastball, which he generally located beneath the strike zone.

Curt Schilling possessed an above-average changeup, an effective slider, and mixed in an occasional curveball, though he mainly alternated between his fastball and splitter.

Curt Schilling considers his family's native Pittsburgh metro area to be home and is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Curt Schilling went to high school in Phoenix, Arizona, attending Shadow Mountain High School.

Until 2013, Curt Schilling lived in Medfield, Massachusetts, in Drew Bledsoe's former home.

Curt Schilling opposes same-sex marriage and believes that each state should decide its laws on the topic rather than the federal government.

Curt Schilling periodically contributes on the ESPN Boston website answering fan questions about the Red Sox or baseball in general.

On February 5,2014, Curt Schilling revealed that he was being treated for throat cancer.

Curt Schilling said his cancer was a result of using smokeless tobacco for 30 years.

Related searches

Curt Schilling used his experiences to warn pitcher Madison Bumgarner, a long-time smokeless tobacco user, of risks.

Curt Schilling said he was encouraged to run for Kerry's seat in the US Senate in 2008 as a Republican.

Curt Schilling was quoted in The Boston Globe as saying that he intended to pitch in 2008, which would preclude a Senate run.

Curt Schilling was called to Capitol Hill to testify about anabolic steroid use in March 2005, not as a suspected user but rather as a vocal opponent.

Curt Schilling has said that Jose Canseco's statistics should be thrown out due to his admitted use of steroids, and has said that unless he can refute allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, Roger Clemens should be stripped of the four Cy Young Awards he has won since 1997.

On January 29,2007, Curt Schilling announced in an interview that he would support Senator John McCain, who became the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election.

Curt Schilling turned up on the campaign trail several times stumping for McCain.

Curt Schilling was mentioned as a possible candidate for US Senate in the special election in Massachusetts for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy.

Curt Schilling ruled out a run during his September 24,2009 appearance on sports radio talk show Dennis and Callahan.

In October 2016, Curt Schilling joined Breitbart News, a far-right opinion and news organization.

Curt Schilling announced that he would challenge Senator Elizabeth Warren in the 2018 US Senate election in Massachusetts but ended up dropping out and supported politician and conspiracy theorist Shiva Ayyadurai in the race.

Curt Schilling expressed interest in running for president in 2024 had Donald Trump been re-elected in 2020.

Curt Schilling has worked on behalf of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sufferers.

Outspoken Curt Schilling has engaged in several conflicts with fellow players.

Curt Schilling was publicly criticized by Phillies teammates Mitch Williams, Larry Andersen, and Danny Jackson for his conduct during the 1993 World Series.

Curt Schilling has directed comments toward New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, calling a Rodriguez tag in Game 6 of the ALCS a "bush-league play" on The Jim Rome Show.

Curt Schilling has a longstanding feud with ESPN and former Arizona Republic reporter Pedro Gomez, initially over a Gomez article that criticized Diamondbacks manager Buck Showalter.

Curt Schilling is something of a con man, someone more intent on polishing his personal image through whatever means possible.

In interviews in October 2004 and February 2006, Curt Schilling, while criticizing Baltimore Sun sports columnist Laura Vecsey, compared her to Gomez and sportswriter Jon Heyman:.

Curt Schilling responded on a local baseball web forum and his own blog to claim to have found errors in Shaughnessy's columns.

Related searches

Curt Schilling explained that it was in the context of the sarcasm and the jabbing that goes on in the clubhouse.

Curt Schilling started a gaming publication, Fire for Effect, a bi-monthly magazine featuring "some of the ASL hobby's best writers".

When his favorite game was sold along with Avalon Hill to Hasbro, Curt Schilling joined the small gaming company Multi-Man Publishing which maintained ASL and other Avalon Hill titles.

Curt Schilling has played EverQuest and EverQuest II and has reviewed two of the game's many expansion packs for PC Gamer magazine.

Curt Schilling has played World of Warcraft and became a regular guest on the World of Warcraft podcast The Instance.

In 2006, Curt Schilling created Green Monster Games, which Curt Schilling stated was not named after the Fenway left field wall.

In January 2008, Curt Schilling announced that he would be focusing on an MMORPG project after his retirement.

Curt Schilling has a custom avatar in EverQuest II, as the creators of the game have made Schilling a special online character.

Every time the virtual Curt Schilling was defeated, Sony Online Entertainment donated $5 towards ALS research.

In November 2014, Curt Schilling got into a day-long Twitter argument with baseball writer Keith Law over the creation–evolution controversy, where he argued for creationism against Law's defense of evolution, after which ESPN decided to suspend Law's Twitter account.

Curt Schilling's account was not suspended, and he continued to tweet.

On February 25,2015, Curt Schilling posted a congratulatory tweet to his then-17-year-old daughter Gabby for her acceptance to college and the school's softball team.

Curt Schilling posted to his blog screen captures of some offending tweets, along with the real identities of the Twitter handles, whose jobs, schools and relatives he claimed to have contacted.

Curt Schilling claimed at least seven others were penalized by their jobs or athletic teams.

Curt Schilling was selected as the commencement speaker for Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 2010 commencement and awarded a Doctorate of Science, honoris causa.

Curt Schilling debuted on ESPN as a baseball color analyst on April 4,2010, on the pre-game show for the 2010 season opener between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

On September 14,2014, Curt Schilling returned to the Sunday Night Baseball booth as the Yankees played the Baltimore Orioles.

Curt Schilling deleted and apologized for the controversial tweet the same day.

Curt Schilling was suspended from the next Sunday night game, in which Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta threw a no-hitter.

Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.

Related searches

In September 2017, Curt Schilling accused ESPN of a double standard when reporter Jemele Hill was not fired or suspended following a controversial social media post about Donald Trump.