Milt wilcox biography

It is a question many players ask themselves as they face the twilight of their baseball odyssey: Do I end my career with five more years of acceptable performance, or do I overexert myself and risk severe injury by playing my best season on a major-league diamond? One player who chose the latter option was right-handed pitcher Milt Wilcox. A model of consistency in his previous seven seasons with the Detroit Tigers despite several shoulder injuries, he pitched through pain in to win a crucial 17 games during that blessed 1984 season. Then his major-league career ended within two years of the Tigers’ winning the world championship, though Wilcox made the successful transition to life after baseball.

Milton Edward Wilcox was born in Honolulu on April 20, 1950. Moving with his family to Oklahoma at the age of 2, he was raised in Del City, a suburb of Oklahoma City. After he graduated from Crooked Oak High School in 1968, the Cincinnati Reds selected him in the second round of the June draft. Wilcox signed a $20,000 bonus contract with scout Tony Robello and began his

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