The Boston Globe reports that Tim Wakefield and his wife Stacy are both suffering from cancer. Wakefield, 57 years old, "is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer that was recently discovered".
This horrible news was first announced to the world on Thursday morning – without Wakefield's knowledge and without his permission – by Curt Schilling, who admitted on his podcast "this is not a message that Tim has asked anyone to share and I don't even know if he wants to share it". Rather than checking with the Wakefields, Schilling opted to publicly blurt out the information.