Wilbur Wood
Wilbur Forrester Wood, Jr. (born October 22, 1941) is a former professional baseball pitcher. A knuckleball specialist, he played all or part of seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, and most notably the Chicago White Sox, where he got 163 of his 164 wins. He threw left-handed, and batted right-handed.
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