Tag: R. A. Dickey

Is there a more feel good story anywhere this year than the R.A. Dickey saga? Once cast on the scrapheap of pitching due to lacking a crucial ligament in his elbow, Dickey went through purgatory and emerged with the determination to claw his way back, and gripping the baseball with his knuckles. The Mets pitcher won his 20th game yesterday, the first Met to do so since 1990, and along the way he's having one of the greatest seasons ever by a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckleballs.