Talk:Wilbur Wood

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I removed this item that was tacked onto the paragraph about Wood's doubleheader start. Wood did start two consecutive games in 1976 (and 1975), but like the others mentioned below, these were due to flukes of scheduling (in this case, several rainouts) and had nothing to do with his endurance, which was the point of the paragraph.

• In 1976, he started two consective games on two consecutive days for the last time in his career. No pitcher started two consecutive games again until Freddie Garcia with the Seattle Mariners in September, 2001, however, there were scheduled games in between that were cancelled immediately following the September 11 attacks so that there were 7 days between his starts. The only other pitcher since Wood to start two consecutive regularly scheduled games was Jose Contreras for the Chicago White Sox in July, 2006, though he too did not do it on consecutive days, but took advantage of the 5 day All-Star break to do it.

I also removed the parenthetical comment on this item. Wood did not start a "significant number" of times in 1968. He started twice.

• Set the single-season record for games pitched in 1968 (88), which has been surpassed by 12 people through 2004, and tied by 2 others (however, all of them were relief pitchers, whereas a significant number of Wood's games in 1968 were starts)

BlongerBros 18:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)