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	Sports 2000 Players - Minor League Legends: Steve Dalkowski
		Dalkowski gained legendary status with a fastball that many who saw him pitch believe was 110 mph.
		Dalkowski was a heavy drinker during his playing days and his drinking continued to escalate after his baseball career was over.
		In the late-1980s, Dalkowski was living in a small apartment in southern California and almost broke.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/players/175838.html (847 words)

	Steve Dalkowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dalkowski began playing baseball in high school, and also played football as a quarterback for New Britain High School.
		After graduating from high school in 1957, Dalkowski was immediately signed by the Baltimore Orioles franchise for a $4,000 bonus, and initially played for their Class D minor league affiliate in Kingsport.
		Dalkowski pitched a total of 62 innings in 1957, struck out 121 (averaging 18 strikeouts per game), but won only once because he walked 129 (8 more than he struck out) and threw 39 wild pitches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Dalkowski (2035 words)

	The Story of Steve Dalkowski - Addict Baseball and Football Forum
		Dalkowski was born with the game in his veins in New Britain, a working-class suburb of Hartford, filled with ethnic families and known as the "Hardware City" because of what its factories produced.
		Dalkowski was of average size, never reaching 6 feet, with an inconspicuous build, poor eyesight and a short attention span.
		Dalkowski rehabbed his elbow and pitched well for Elmira in 1963 and Stockton in 1964, but he was no longer a fearsome strikeout king.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=18574 (5153 words)

	Sports Hollywood - Poor Sports: Steve Dalkowski
		Steve Barber said, "I remember one night, Bo (Belinski, Steve's roommate) and I were together, and we went into this place, and Steve's there, and he says, 'Hey, guys, come over and look at this beautiful sight' -- twenty-four scotch and waters lined up in front of him.
		Dalkowski was totally unprepared for an early retirement, and his drinking continued to escalate.
		Dalkowski's wife moved him to Oklahoma City in 1992, and when she died in 1994, his former catcher Frank Zupo -- a teammate at Stockton in 1960 -- and Dalkowski's sister, Pat Cain, brought him back home to New Britain, Connecticut, and placed him in the Walnut Hill Health Centre.
	www.sportshollywood.com /poorsports13.html (2058 words)

	SI.com - SI Exclusive - SI Flashback: Where Are They Now? Steve Dalkowski - Friday July 9, 2004 11:59AM
		Dalkowski had pitched the night before and was throwing from a flat surface rather than a mound.
		Dalkowski's drink of choice was cheap wine, which he would buy when the bus stopped on the way to the crop field.
		Dalkowski moved to Oklahoma City with Virginia in 1993, but when she died of a brain aneurysm in 1994, it was time for him to come home.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/pr/subs/siexclusive/07/09/dalkowski_flashback (2009 words)

	Fastest Fastball? - Page 3 - Baseball Fever
		Dalkowski would rear back with what would be called a high leg kick, except that Dalkowski bent his leg inward a bit like Greg Maddux.
		Steve also threw a breaking pitch at around 95 mph, based on most estimates, and this pitch was probably akin to a slider.
		Steve's fastball has been estimated from 98-120+ mph, although throwing 120+ mph is just as ridiculous as the claim that he threw 98 mph.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?p=697536 (2954 words)

	Sports Hollywood - Poor Sports: Robert Fabbricatore on Steve Dalkowski
		Dalkowski's ball had a rise to it that was unbelievable.
		Steve was no ladies man. But, when "Nuke" hit the mascot, all I could think of was Steve.
		Steve Dalkowski's life has been as wild and unpredictable as his pitching.
	www.sportshollywood.com /poorsports.html (943 words)

	ESPN.com - Major League Baseball - History's strikeout kings
		Probably the hardest thrower in baseball history, Dalkowski was once reportedly clocked at 108 mph while pitching for Class A Elmira in 1962.
		Dalkowski never reached the majors due to his inability to throw the ball over the plate and that led to a career minor-league record of 46-80.
		Weaver realized that Dalkowski had been given too much information to digest and told him to worry only about his fastball and slider and throwing strikes.
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/1999/0902/39177.html (1765 words)

	Season 1
		Dalkowski is serving a life sentence for murder in Joliet.
		In the prison yard, Dalkowski listens to a story about a one-armed man named Charnquist, supposedly dead for years, but as the inmate says, there is a picture of him from a 1999 New Years celebration in a Tavern outside of Chicago.
		Steve is quick to relay this to Kimble via the personal ads with a message to call Steve's mom.
	www.dr-richard-kimble.com /S1_EP14.htm (833 words)

	Ryan + Ankiel = Steve Dalkowski \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Dalkowski threw three pitches that penetrated the backstop and sent fans scattering during a minor league game.
		Dalkowski thrived under Weaver's tutelage at Elmira (N.Y.) in 1962, and he appeared ready to make the Baltimore Orioles roster at spring training in '63.
		Identical number of strikeouts and walks for Steve Dalkowski in 170 innings while pitching for Stockton of the California League.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040627/news_lz1s27galry.html (434 words)

	Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - There goes the fastest man who ever pitched...
		Dalkowski who apparently lived even faster than he threw never made it to the majors, but he served the game well in other ways, being the model for Sidd Finch and 'Nuke' LaLoosh.
		Steve Dalkowski was far and away the fastest throwing pitcher in the history of this planet.
		Steve was not a big guy, and he didn't take care of himself (alcoholism, etc.) Usually powerful trunk and leg action gives that extra speed on the power pitches.
	www.battersbox.ca /article.php?story=20030908093020999 (3384 words)

	Steve Dalkowski Profile
		Steve Dalkowski became a minor league legend in the 1960's because of his blazing fastball.
		The fact that Dalkowski was born with an IQ of 60, Weaver may have been correct.
		A few months later, Dalkowski was drinking again and the APBA stopped its assistance because the money they gave Dalkowski was being used to buy liquor.
	www.nocryinginbaseball.com /dalkowski.html (855 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dalkowski never made it to the majors, but by all accounts, it is absolutely clear that he threw harder than any pitcher in the history of baseball.
		In Dalkowski’s final 57 innings at Elmira in 1962, he struck out 110 batters, walked 11 and had an ERA of 0.11.
		Dalkowski became a farm worker in California after baseball, picking lemons, oranges, apricots, and cotton.
	www.widewordofsports.com /Articles-016.htm (1256 words)

	Deep South Class D Baseball Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At that time Paul Richards was the general manager of the Orioles and his idea was to have Dalkowski throw a lot before the game so that maybe he'd get a little tired and start finding the plate.
		In later years, I learned that Dalkowski, who was a personable guy, had an IQ of only 65.
		Dalkowski threw another pitch and wedged the ball in the chicken wire backstop.
	www.alabama-florida-league.com /nafl_-_interview_-_jack_banning.htm (2735 words)

	TIME.com: The Wildest Pitcher -- Jul 18, 1960 -- Page 1
		The hardest thrower in organized baseball is Steve Dalkowski Jr., a sturdy lefthander who pitches for the Stockton Ports in the Class C California League.
		Dalkowski's father, a vocational buffer in an electric-tool plant in New Britain, Conn, and an avocational baseball buff, trained Steve for the outfield.
		A wooden target was erected in the bullpen; Dalkowski missed it completely on his first few pitches, then hit it square, smashed it to splinters and ended the experiment.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,869618,00.html (528 words)

	Bull Durham corrections
		Steve was such a crackpot (IQ of 60, drank like a fish, actually hit a fan some 27 rows into the stands, etc.), Shelton decided he would base a character on him.
		Dalkowski's fastball was in the high 90's and like many other minor leaguers with a blazing fastball, he couldn't control it but hitting someone 27 rows deep and throwing 115 mph is strictly fantasy.
		Once when Steve was in high school he threw a complete game no-hitter in which he struck out 18 men and walked another 18.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film222/corrections (1123 words)

	The Legend of Steve "White Lightning" Dalkowski - NYYFans.com Yankees Message Board
		Steve Dalkowski is many times credited with being the hardest throwing pitcher to ever play baseball on any level, throwing between 105 and 110 MPH, possibly even higher.
		What is known for sure about Dalkowski is that he was lefty, stood between 5'8" and 5'11", weighed about 170 lbs, wore coke-bottle glasses and had an IQ of between 60-75, which bordered on mental retardation.
		The only thing that kept Dalkowski from ever reaching the majors was that he couldn't throw his fastball with any sort of control...
	forums.nyyfans.com /showthread.php?t=84555 (2336 words)

	Scout.com: Baseball Men - The Phenom
		It's true that the kid, somehow, had a blazing velocity (he would routinely strike out 17 or 18 batters per game in his senior year of 1956), but he was nearly as wild as he was fast (a typical year would see him issue 129 bases on balls in 62 innings).
		And yet, like the ballplayer he once was, Steve Dalkowski has managed to rally for a late comeback.
		And yet, when Steve Dalkowski talked baseball on September 14th, he had many good moments, moments when his eyes lit up and he flashed a premiere athlete's easy grin.
	stlcardinals.scout.com /2/447168.html (3193 words)

	White Men Can't Jump
		Dalkowski finished one season at Stockton with 262 strikeouts and 262 walks, and once managed to bean an announcer up in the booth.
		Dalkowski had one 55 inning stretch for Elmira in 1962 when he struck out 104, gave up only 11 runs, and "didn't walk many".
		Dalkowski is still alive, living now in his home town of New Britain, Connecticut, residing in the Walnut Hill Health Centre, but he isn't well, his health shattered by all the years of alcohol abuse.
	www.fakes.net /whitemen.htm (1342 words)

	Hot Links - Archives
		Steve Cook : Steve Dalkowski, the greatest arm ever to miss the bigs - Capable of throwing a 110-mph fastball and throwing -through- an outfield fence, Dalkowski didn't learn control until just before a career-ending injury.
		Steve Cook : Amy Sullivan on Left Behind - Ignore the suspect theology and wafer-thin characters -- I read the first one of these, and the prose is, unbelievably, much worse than Sullivan makes it out to be.
		Steve Cook : Kool-Aid Man's costume is in Hastings, NE - The museum in the inventor's hometown has an exhibit with a "fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid".
	dev.upian.com /hotlinks/archives/2004/06/20/?f=25 (1116 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Loose cannons sometimes go astray
		Steve Dalkowski: Just might have thrown harder than anybody who ever lived.
		Dalkowski was our star whenever he managed to locate home plate.
		Dalkowski pitched in the minor leagues for nine seasons, but he never pitched in the majors because he never could learn to throw the ball over the plate with any sort of consistency.
	espn.go.com /mlb/columns/neyer_rob/1562608.html (1279 words)

	Amazon.com: The Scout: DVD: Albert Brooks,Brendan Fraser,Dianne Wiest,Anne Twomey,Lane Smith,Michael Rapaport,Barry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Steve Nebraska is supposedly on the roof of Yankee Stadium, yet the Los Angeles skyline is visible behind him.
		Steve's green beer bottle keeps turning between cuts while he chats with the scout in the lounge.
		Steve holds a pile of plates with one hand as he hurls them Frisbee-style out of Al's kitchen window with the other hand.
	www.amazon.com /Scout-Michael-Ritchie/dp/fun-facts/B00005NGAZ (681 words)

	Why can't pitchers throw harder? - By Noam Scheiber - Slate Magazine
		We don't have an exact number for the same reason Dalkowski, who toiled in the minors in the late 1950s and early 1960s, never made the big leagues: He was too wild to time.
		When a scout tried to gauge Dalkowski's fastball with a primitive radar gun—a beam of light the width of home plate—the pitcher couldn't hit the target until after his arm got tired.
		Steve Dalkowski sounds like a genetic freak, but so is anyone who can throw a baseball 90 mph.
	www.slate.com /id/2116402 (1656 words)

	Read this extremely tragic baseball story - Braves.Net - Free Atlanta Braves Baseball Talk
		Former Yankees manager Bob Lemon said the best Dalkowski exploit he saw was in Miami's Bobby Maduro Stadium when Steve hit a guy in the back -- and the guy was standing in line to buy a hot dog! "The guy came up to me after and asked if I'd autograph the ball," Dalkowski said.
		Steve never overcame that but Sandy did and the rest is Hall of Fame history.
		Dalkowski nailed him in the head so hard that the ball flew back and landed on the grass between the mound and second base.
	www.bravesbeat.com /boards/showthread.php?p=187429 (3669 words)

	fastest pitcher today/all time? - BaptistBoard.com
		Legend has it that a minor league lefty pitcher in the Balitmore Orioles organization in the late 50's named Steve Dalkowski had a fastball that was close to 110mph, but sadly he couldn't keep it in a batting cage.
		I think Dalkowski once led his league in walks strikeouts wild pitches and hit batters, oh yeah, and pitches thrown.
		I once read that Steve Dalkowski was timed at 94 one time at the US military's Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
	www.baptistboard.com /showthread.php?t=10566 (1395 words)

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		Credit: National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NYSteven Louis Dalkowski (born June 3, 1939 in New Britain, Connecticut) is a retired left-handed pitcher in minor league baseball.
		Dalkowski was also famous for his unpredictable performance and inability to control his pitches.
	forums.plentyoffish.com /datingPosts2667594.aspx (297 words)

	Amazon.ca: Scout, the: Video: Michael Ritchie,Albert Brooks,Brendan Fraser,Dianne Wiest,Anne Twomey,Lane Smith,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Steve has dangerous idiosyncrasies and an abusive past, which are uncovered as time goes on.
		Steve Nebraska's character is loosely based on a pitcher named Steve Dalkowski.
		When Steve Nebraska is pitching in front of Baseball Scouts at Yankee Satdium, during filming Keith Hernandez walked out of the dugout wearing Tennis Shoes, and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner told...
	www.amazon.ca /Scout-Michael-Ritchie/dp/6303327966 (1687 words)

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