In one of the great injustices in modern sports history, the Boston Red Sox decided not to invite the most heroic member of their iconic 2004 World Series champions to join his teammates to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 1 of the World Series Tuesday night.
In the midst of the famed 2004 American League Championship Series in which the Red Sox executed the unprecedented feat of coming back from a 3-0 series deficit to finally knock off their perennial tormentors, the New York Yankees, Curt Schilling underwent a kind of surgery on his ankle which had never been performed before, then came back to win Game 6 in Yankee Stadium in spectacular fashion. The famed scene of blood oozing from Schilling’s ankle through his sock while he pitched is etched in the minds of everyone who saw that game.
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