Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball`s Fastest Pitcher 9781645427100

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Автор: Dembski Bill, Thomas Alex, Vikander Brian
Название: Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball`s Fastest Pitcher
ISBN: 9781645427100
Издательство: Influence Publishers
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1645427102
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 22.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 158 x 31
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve White Lightning Dalkowski, baseballs fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one mans unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach. For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseballs Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the games fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts readers on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions. Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Dalkowski signed into the Baltimore Orioles system. Poised for greatness, he might have risen to be one of the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Instead, he spent his entire career toiling away in the minor leagues. An inspiration for the character Nuke LaLoosh in the classic baseball film Bull Durham, Dalkos life and story were as fast and wild as the pitches he threw. The late Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who saw baseball greats Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitch, said Dalko threw harder than all of em. Cal Ripken Sr., Dalkowskis catcher for several years, said the same. Bull Durham screenwriter Ron Shelton, who played with Dalkowski in the minor leagues, said They called him Dalko and guys liked to hang with him and women wanted to take care of him and if he walked in a room in those days he was probably drunk. This force on the field that could break chicken wire backstops and wooden fences with his heat but racked up almost as many walks as strikeouts in his career, spent years of drinking all night and showing up on the field the next day, just in time to show his wild heat again. What the Washington Post called baseballs greatest what-If story is one of a superhuman, once-in-a-generation gift, a near-mythical talent that refused to be tamed. Steve Dalkowski will forever be remembered for his remarkable arm. Said Shelton, In his sport, he had the equivalent of Michaelangelos gift but could never finish a painting. Dalko is the story of the fastest pitching that baseball has ever seen, an explosive but uncontrolled arm.

Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball`s Fastest Pitcher, Dembski Bill, Thomas Alex, Vikander Brian