(RIP Wilbur Wood, 1941-2026)
In 1973, Double W
Started both games
Of a double header
Against the Yanks on that day,
Wilbur threw few flames,
Relying on his knuckler
Pitching for the White Sox,
Wood didn’t have claims
Over kids like me, a Northsider
But I did try to emulate him:
Throwing his pitch in stickball games;
Fooling batters with a butterfly floater
That same year, he won 24, lost 20;
WW, pitching all those frames,
Was an amazing workloader