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Barry Rozner has an outstanding piece on Wood’s final game. Unfortunately its behind the Daily Herald pay wall (which you can get around on an ipad). Its perhaps the best write-up of Wood’s career and yesterday’s events.
I think that part of what adds to this is that there is a degree of tragedy to it all… No, not tragedy in the sense of real life tragedy. Wood will go home with a lot of money, his health and a family. He’ll also be a part of the Cubs organization. But from the sporting world, its almost like there was something Shakespearian about Wood’s career… the young strong athlete who seemingly had the world in his hands, bursts onto the scene with perhaps the greatest pitching performance in regular season history, but ultimately injury after injury did him in. Most players in his position would have given up long ago and likely would’ve bounced around the majors. With the exception of his stop with the Indians and Yankees, Wood remained a fixture in one organization and he attempted comeback after comeback and kept trying to reinvent himself.
Again, I’m not equating this with the real tragedy that people experience, but there was something a bit more sad about the end of Wood’s career than most.
I think that part of what adds to this is that there is a degree of tragedy to it all… No, not tragedy in the sense of real life tragedy. Wood will go home with a lot of money, his health and a family. He’ll also be a part of the Cubs organization. But from the sporting world, its almost like there was something Shakespearian about Wood’s career… the young strong athlete who seemingly had the world in his hands, bursts onto the scene with perhaps the greatest pitching performance in regular season history, but ultimately injury after injury did him in. Most players in his position would have given up long ago and likely would’ve bounced around the majors. With the exception of his stop with the Indians and Yankees, Wood remained a fixture in one organization and he attempted comeback after comeback and kept trying to reinvent himself.
Again, I’m not equating this with the real tragedy that people experience, but there was something a bit more sad about the end of Wood’s career than most.
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