Brownian Motion Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 Steve Dalkowski met Roger Maris once. It did not take long — “three straight pitches,” Dalkowski recalled, through the blur of 46 very hard years. They were legends when they met under the lights at a minor league stadium in Miami on March 22, 1963. Maris was a legend for having hit a record 61 homers in 1961; Dalkowski was a legend for being perhaps the fastest pitcher ever. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/sports/b...l/19vecsey.html Quote
AllenLowe Posted July 19, 2009 Report Posted July 19, 2009 what an amazing story - I was a big baseball fan in those years, but do not remember him. Shades of Herb Score - Quote
Adam Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 Also written up in the LA Times by filmmaker Ron Shelton: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dalkow...0,5571688.story The person holding the photo of Dalkowski is Terry Cannon, who founded Filmforum, the organization that I now run. He runs the Baseball Reliquary. www.baseballreliquary.org Quote
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