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Curt Schilling is best known as the pitcher and team leader of the 2004 and 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox. But he has more talents than what he displayed on the baseball diamond.
In 2006, Schilling founded 38 Studios LLC for the purpose of developing a broad range of products, including online and console video games, toys, novels, comics, film, television and other forms of digital media. 38 Studios employs about 115 and is currently based in Maynard, Mass.
Earlier this year, the R.I. Economic Development Corporation began talks with Schilling to move 38 Studios to the Ocean State. On Nov. 5, the EDC announced an agreement was finalized, with the EDC guaranteeing $75 million in bonds sold on the open market that will finance 38 Studios’ relocation and expansion. The company already has a lease to move into One Empire Plaza in Providence.
38 Studios’ first original products will feature the artistic vision of world-renowned comic book and toy creator Todd McFarlane and best-selling fantasy author R. A. Salvatore. The company is currently developing two products, one of which is a single-player roll-playing video game called “Kingdoms of Amalu: Reckoning,” scheduled for release in the fall of 2011.
Schilling’s career in Major League Baseball spanned 20 years, and included a World Series appearance with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1993, as well as the world title with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001 before being traded to the Red Sox in November 2003.
His fame grew in September 2004 during the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees, when his injured ankle soaked his sock with blood. The “bloody sock” is now in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The 2004 World Series championship followed; the first one for the Red Sox since 1918.
Schilling pitched his final game with the Red Sox on Oct. 25, 2007, winning the second game of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies. He officially retired from professional baseball in 2009, with a 216-146 record, 3.46 ERA and 3,116 strikeouts. He is eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.
Schilling was born in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1966, and he and his wife, Shonda, have four children.