Milt Wilcox

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Milton Edward Wilcox (born April 20, 1950) is an American former baseball pitcher. He pitched for 16 years in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds (1970–1971), Cleveland Indians (1972–1974), Chicago Cubs (1975), Detroit Tigers (1977–1985), and Seattle Mariners (1986). In his first major-league season, he won Game 3 of the 1970 National League Championship Series and lost Game 2 of the 1970 World Series. Fourteen years later, he won 17 games for the 1984 Detroit Tigers team, pitched a shutout in the final game of the 1984 American League Championship Series, and was the winning pitcher in Game 3 of the 1984 World Series. In 16 major-league seasons Wilcox appeared in 394 games, including 283 as a starter, and compiled a 119–113 win–loss record with a 4.07 earned run average (ERA) and 1,137 strikeouts, 2,0162⁄3 innings pitched, and 770 bases on balls. Wilcox was born in 1950 at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu where his father was a drafting engineer. When Wilcox was three years old, he moved with his family to Crooked Oak, Oklahoma. He attended Crooked Oak High School where he was a star for the baseball and basketball teams. Wilcox graduated from high school in June 1968 and had a scholarship offer from the University of Oklahoma. He was selected that same month by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round (33rd overall pick) of the 1968 Major League Baseball draft.