Three-Time All-Star for Red Sox, White Sox, Pirates Dies

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Wilbur Wood, who set the standard for pitching durability en route to three All-Star Game appearances over 17 seasons in Major League Baseball, died Saturday. He was 84. More news: Former Braves, Giants Pitcher Dies For a stretch in the early 1970s, Wood was the most relentlessly available pitcher in the American League — a knuckleballer who showed up, took the ball, and kept taking it, again and again. His 376.2 innings pitched in 1972 read like a misprint. Yet Wood followed up that season by

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