The knuckle-balling pitcher won 200 major league games, including 186 with the Boston Red Sox
in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year — has died. He was 57.
Drafted by theas a first baseman who set home run records in college, Wakefield converted to a pitcher after mastering the knuckleball in the minor leagues. Relying on the old-timey pitch that had largely fallen into disuse, he went on to win 200 major league games, including 186 with the Red Sox — behind only Cy Young and Roger Clemens in franchise history.
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