He was 57. The Red Sox announced his death in a statement Sunday that detailed not only his baseball statistics but a career full of charitable endeavors. Wakefield had brain cancer, according to ...

FILE - Former Boston Red Sox player Tim Wakefield looks on before the start of a baseball game between the Red Sox and Oakland Athletics at Fenway Park, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Boston.

Yes, of course, the Red Sox should retire Tim Wakefield’s No. 49. Do it next season, on the 20th anniversary of the 2004 World Series championship, when he was that extraordinary team’s ...

Former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield has been diagnosed with brain cancer, according to former teammate Curt Schilling. The diagnosis was announced Tuesday by Schilling on his podcast ...

BOSTON – Beloved former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield died at the age of 57, the team announced on Sunday. The knuckleballer spent 29 years with the organization as a player, special assistant ...

"He gave so much to the game and all of Red Sox Nation," the Boston team wrote of Wakefield in a statement Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

BOSTON -- Red Sox fans in attendance at Fenway Park and at home watching on TV experienced a range of emotions on Opening Day on Tuesday. The return of the 2004 Red Sox represented a celebration ...

Colin Barnicle, the director behind Netflix's 'The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox,' tells PEOPLE how Wakefield's generosity helped him after the '07 World Series Jim Rogash/Getty The late Tim ...

Tim Wakefield, a longtime knuckleball pitcher and two-time World Series champion, died Sunday at the age of 57 from brain cancer, the Boston Red Sox announced. "Our hearts are broken with the loss ...

BOSTON (AP) — Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox say announcer and former knuckleballer Tim Wakefield is undergoing treatment for a disease they did not specify and asked for fans to respect his privacy after ...

BOSTON — Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston ...