| − | '''Curt Schilling''' (born November 14, 1966 in [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]]) is a retired [[American]] [[baseball]] player. A starting pitcher for most of his major league career, he played on three [[World Series]] winning teams, the 2001 [[Arizona Diamondbacks]], the 2004 Boston Red Sox and the 2007 Boston Red Sox. He is known throughout baseball for his quick wit, friendly nature, and [[conservative]] ideology. He helped elect [[Scott Brown]] in a spectacular upset victory for the [[U.S. Senate]] seat in 2010, and Schilling was fired by [[ESPN]] in 2015 for merely tweeting that the the percentage of Muslims who are extremists today is comparable to the percentage of Germans who were [[Nazis]] in 1940. | + | '''Curt Schilling''' (born November 14, 1966 in [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]]) is a retired [[American]] [[baseball]] player. A starting pitcher for most of his major league career, he played on three [[World Series]] winning teams, the 2001 [[Arizona Diamondbacks]], the 2004 Boston Red Sox and the 2007 Boston Red Sox. He is known throughout baseball for his quick wit, friendly nature, and [[conservative]] ideology. He helped elect [[Scott Brown]] in a spectacular upset victory for the [[U.S. Senate]] seat in 2010, and Schilling was suspended by [[ESPN]] in 2015 for merely tweeting that the the percentage of Muslims who are extremists today is comparable to the percentage of Germans who were [[Nazis]] in 1940. |