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Milt Wilcox
American baseball player (born )
Baseball player
Milton Edward Wilcox (born April 20, ) is an American former baseball pitcher. He pitched for 16 years in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds (–), Cleveland Indians (–), Chicago Cubs (), Detroit Tigers (–), and Seattle Mariners ().
In his first major-league season, he won Game 3 of the National League Championship Series and lost Game 2 of the World Series. Fourteen years later, he won 17 games for the Detroit Tigers team, pitched a shutout in the final game of the American League Championship Series, and was the winning pitcher in Game 3 of the World Series.
In 16 major-league seasons Wilcox appeared in games, including as a starter, and compiled a – win–loss record with a earned run average (ERA) and 1, strikeouts, 2,&#;3innings pitched, and bases on balls.[1]
Early years
[edit]Wilcox was born in at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu where his father was a drafting engineer.[1][2&# • It is a question many players ask themselves as they face the twilight of their baseball odyssey: Do I end my career with five more years of acceptable performance, or do I overexert myself and risk severe injury by playing my best season on a major-league diamond? One player who chose the latter option was right-handed pitcher Milt Wilcox. A model of consistency in his previous seven seasons with the Detroit Tigers despite several shoulder injuries, he pitched through pain in to win a crucial 17 games during that blessed season. Then his major-league career ended within two years of the Tigers’ winning the world championship, though Wilcox made the successful transition to life after baseball. Milton Edward Wilcox was born in Honolulu on April 20, Moving with his family to Oklahoma at the age of 2, he was raised in Del City, a suburb of Oklahoma City. After he graduated from Crooked Oak High School in , the Cincinnati Reds selected him in the second round of the Jun •Milt Wilcox
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