Wilbur Wood has died at 84. RIP.
He was a favorite of mine. I saw him at Fenway in 1972, the day of the Vendome Hotel fire. Black smoke rose over the outfield wall the whole game.
Late in the game, Chuck Tanner replaced Wood with the young Terry Forster (many years later referred to by David Letterman as "a fat tub of goo").
After two hours of Wood's knuckleballs, the Red Sox never got their bats off their shoulders for Forster's fastballs.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/wilbur-wood-famed-white-sox-knuckleball-pitcher-dead-at-84/ar-AA1UtDFR
I did some research for Ulrich on that book, and am mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section. Along with a Special Thanks credit in the documentary film on Judee Sill, those are my public credentials as a music researcher.