Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has retired from baseball after twenty-three years in professional baseball.  He played for the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox.  He made the announcement on his blog 38 Pitches.

To say I’ve been blessed would be like calling Refrigerator Perry ‘a bit overweight’. The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Four World Series, three World Championships. That there are men with plaques in Cooperstown who never experienced one, and I was able to be on three teams over seven years that won it all is another ‘beyond my wildest dreams’ set of memories I’ll be allowed to take with me.

Schilling will best be known for his final years and World Series apperances with the Red Sox.  His gutsy ‘bloody sock’ apperance in the 2004 playoffs will forever be etched in MLB history.  Now if it was really blood or something else is a different story.

Schilling was very outspoken, but well educated, and usually good for the game with his honest appraisels.