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Animalman said:
On this same subject, one of my favorite players is Steve Dalkowski, who never reached the majors but is still a legend to most hardcore baseball fans because of his fastball that was once estimated at 110 mph. Ted Williams once faced him in a spring training game and said "I never saw the first pitch".

Dalkowski was the model for "Nuke" Laloosh, as writer/director Ron Shelton played on the same minor league team as him.



I love hearing stories about this guy. There's one in Ron Luciano's second book, Strike Two. I really wish he got to play in the majors for at least one game.

What I'd really like is for someone to compare stories about Sidd Finch next to Dalkowski, and see which ones people tend to believe...

And that's terrible.