Cricket fans - and I’m one of them too - claim that their game is the more complex. It has more variables. It is more nuanced. And I would tend to agree. If I didn’t I just needed to watch an over or two bowled by Bishan Bedi, Shane Warne or Muttiah Muralitharan. All spinners who earned their wickets with guile and craft rather than pace and power. And then the Red Sox signed Tim Wakefield.
Tim was a knuckleballer, throwing slow pitches that moved erratically and unpredictably. There are few, if any, pitching knuckleballs in the majors today.
Tim on the mound was one of a kind. What I didn’t know when I watched him was that he was one of a kind in the community, in the city.
We’re not talking about the high profile charities with celebrity gala dinners and massive media coverage.
Tim did the hard work, visiting sick children in hospital, turning up to host small isolated events, donating large and small sums wherever and whenever he could help.
He died on the last day of the regular season and the Sox came through for him with with a win against the Orioles.
Throughout Boston and baseball, throughout New England and here in Warwick, in the heart of old England, he will be remembered.
Tim was a knuckleballer, throwing slow pitches that moved erratically and unpredictably. There are few, if any, pitching knuckleballs in the majors today.
Tim on the mound was one of a kind. What I didn’t know when I watched him was that he was one of a kind in the community, in the city.
We’re not talking about the high profile charities with celebrity gala dinners and massive media coverage.
Tim did the hard work, visiting sick children in hospital, turning up to host small isolated events, donating large and small sums wherever and whenever he could help.
He died on the last day of the regular season and the Sox came through for him with with a win against the Orioles.
Throughout Boston and baseball, throughout New England and here in Warwick, in the heart of old England, he will be remembered.
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