Curt Schilling has had countless conflicts with players, management and media over the decades, the most recent of which caused him to be fired by ESPN on April 20, 2016.
Schilling was fired from ESPN after tweeting this meme about so-called “bathroom laws” that bans transgender people from entering bathrooms of the gender with which they identify.
The former baseball analyst has repeatedly compared Islam to Nazism, as seen in this tweet.
Schilling and ESPN baseball writer Keith Law got into a heated exchange about evolution, with Schilling demanding to see evidence that the theory is true.
The Philadelphia Phillies pitcher defended South Carolina’s flying of the Confederate with this Facebook post.
Schilling has long been an opponent of Hillary Clinton, frequently criticizing her handling of Benghazi and her political record.
After being fired for his anti-transgender tweet, Schilling claimed in a radio interview that ESPN employs some of the “biggest racists in sports.”
The 1993 World Series champion claimed that one of the reasons he wasn’t put into the Hall of Fame in 2015 was because of his political beliefs, saying: “I know that as a Republican there’s some people that really don’t like that.”
Schilling has also criticized the Obama administration, as seen in this meme of Obama crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama compared to the 1965 march.
