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SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. www.SportsPublishingInc.com
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1999 Sports Publishing All rights reserved.
Book design, editor: Susan M. Mckinney Cover design: Scot Muncaster Photos: The Associated Press, Rosemary Rahn, Ira Beckoff, and Don Brewer
ISBN: 1-58261-055-x Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-61953
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. SportsPublishingInc.com
Printed in the United States.
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Contents
1 "What if I Can Never Pitch Again?"
1
2 Northern Exposure
9
3 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
19
4 Up and Down
24
5 The Philadelphia Story
40
6 The Championship Season
48
7 The Fall and the Redemption
56
8 Epilogue
66
Curt Schilling Statistics
70
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Chapter One "What If I Can Never Pitch Again?"
Curt Schilling woke up in the hospital on the morning of August 23, 1995, with an agonizing pain in his right shoulder. Dr. Craig Morgan, who had repaired a torn muscle and removed a bone spur, was standing next to the bed. The surgeon was smiling.
He explained that the procedure had gone well. The rotator cuff wasn't torn. There was no reason the Philadelphia Phillies star shouldn't make a complete recovery.
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Curt wasn't so sure. "My shoulder felt like it was on fire," he recalled.
When he went home, he hung a pulley from the wall to begin his rehabilitation. His shoulder hurt so badly he couldn't even lift his arm.
"What if I can never pitch again?" was the thought that kept running through Curt's mind.
He tried not to think about the possibility. He couldn't help himself.
Curt was just 28 years old. Since being traded to the Phillies three years earlier his career had started to come together.
He had been the Opening Day starting pitcher that season for the second consecutive year. He was off to a good start, striking out almost one batter per inning. Then it happened.
Cut's last start had been against the Colorado Rockies in Denver. Everything was normal until the seventh inning when his velocity suddenly dropped
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10 miles an hour. There was no pain. He didn't realize anything was wrong at the time.
He woke up the next morning at the team hotel. He noticed that his arm was a little more stiff than usual the day after a game. When he went to take a shower, Curt realized he couldn't raise his arm.
"I was nervous, because I knew that wasn't normal," he said. "But I was trying to be as optimistic as I could be."
When he went to Coors Field that afternoon, he tried to pretend that nothing was wrong. Finally, he approached trainer Jeff Cooper.
Two weeks later, Curt was given the diagnosis he had been dreading. He was told he had a torn rotator cuff.
"Even with modern technology, for a power pitcher, that usually signals the end of something,"
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When Curt had surgery on his shoulder in 1995, he was afraid he might never pitch again.
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he explained. "That was when I really began to think back and realize that it might all be over."
Curt decided to get a second opinion from Dr. Morgan in Wilmington, Delaware. This time, the news was more encouraging.
The surgery confirmed what Dr. Morgan suspected. The rotator cuff wasn't torn after all.
"It all kind of hit me that day and the next morning when I came home," Curt remembered. "I put up the pulley to raise my arm. That's kind of like walking. It's not something you ever think you'll need to relearn.
"And I couldn't do it. That's when I started thinking there was no way I would ever be able to throw a baseball the way I did before.
"I started to think back to a lot of things I did when I was younger. I used that as a good excuse. I thought, 'I'm just a young kid. I'm learning.' It
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