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An Excerpt from The Summer of 43: R.A. Dickey’s Knuckleball and the Redemption of America’s Game
by Joseph Bottum
A fastball is a young man’s pitch. Arrogant and overpowering. An exercise in green strength and the flexibility of young bones and tendons. Oh, older pitchers can sometimes throw the high-velocity things, barreling toward the plate at more than 90 miles an hour. Even in his last seasons, a forty-year-old man playing in the early […]
