Schilling family is hosting nine from New Orleans

[MaineDem]

Sorry if this has already been posted. With the lack of Search I can't check.

Love him or hate him, this is a good story. Schilling kept it quiet until the papers contacted him.

By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | September 6, 2005

Last autumn, Curt Schilling helped the Red Sox win it all. Now, he and his wife, Shonda, are helping a New Orleans family of nine who have lost almost everything.

Moved by the plight of thousands of Gulf Coast residents whose lives were shattered by Hurricane Katrina, the star pitcher and his wife arranged to fly up a family and to put them up in a Boston-area hotel, where the family has been since Saturday.

The Fields family has seven children, four boys and three girls. They are between the ages of 5 and 12. The family fled its New Orleans home just before the storm, with only a few clothes and groceries.

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The Schillings, who have four children 10 and younger, visited the family at the hotel. It was then that Fields learned who had helped his family.

''I said, 'Wait a second, I know this guy,' " said Fields, a big baseball fan. ''Schilling . . . Schilling, there's only one Schilling I know, and he's a baseball player! It blew my mind."

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/09/06/schilling_family_is_hosting_nine_from_new_orleans/?page=1

I posted this originally in the Sports forum. I hope it's okay to place it here, too.