 11/29/2003 12:35 AM ET
Charity important to Schillings
Pitcher, wife donating $500,000 to Jimmy Fund
BOSTON -- Curt Schilling the pitcher is quite an acquisition on his own merit. Add the fact that the Red Sox are bringing in one of baseball's most noted humanitarians and this is a move the entire community of Boston will come to appreciate in time.
Shortly after it was announced that Schilling was acquired from the Diamondbacks and subsequently signed to a two-year contract extension, the pitcher made it known to New Englanders that they were getting far more than a baseball player.
The ink was hardly dry on his new contract before it was announced that Schilling and wife Shonda would be donating $500,000 to the Jimmy Fund, the cancer-fighting organization the Red Sox have stood by for a half-century.
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