Red Sox Legend Tim Wakefield Diagnosed With Brain Cancer: Report

BOSTON, MA — Few baseball careers are as unique as Tim Wakefield’s, the Boston Red Sox legend who stepped to the rubber with two pitches below 90 mph and still compiled 200 wins in a career that spanned nearly two decades.

Now, the baseball community is rallying behind the knuckleballer after news of a recent medical diagnosis.

Wakefield, 57, who pitched for the Red Sox from 1995-2011, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. His former teammate, Curt Schilling, announced the diagnosis on his podcast this week.

He joined the Red Sox in 1995 and toed the rubber at Fenway until the end of the 2011 season. Overall, Wakefield finished his career with a 200-180 won-lost record and a 4.41 earned run average.

Wakefield was an All-Star at the age of 42 in 2009, and won two World Series titles with the Red Sox, including the curse-busting 2004 World Series.

With reporting from Eric Heyl.