Talk:Steve Dalkowski

message: Portions of the pitching speed section where quoted directly from an post by Kit Kreiger to the SABR-L mailing list.  The full text of the quote is here:
Dave Baldwin write about the legendary speed and wildness of Steve
Dalkowski. Many of the stories derive from Pat Jordan's writings more than
30 years ago. I never had the privilege to see Dalkowski pitch but remember
that his arm was a frequent topic of conversation in my clubhouse when I was
the visiting clubhouse attendant for the Vancouver Mounties of the Pacific
Coast League from 1967-69. I remember a conversation about ten years later
with Andy Etchebarren, who caught Dalkowski when they both played with
Elmira in the Eastern League in 1962. I started the conversation and
repeated some of the stories I had read, including the one that Dalkowski
had once hit a batter in the on-deck circle. Etchebarren said that Dalkowski
was not tough to catch. He described his fastball as "light". He also
remarked that Dalkowski's wildness was high and low (mostly high) and not
inside an outside. He said that Dalkowski had trouble because his ball had
so much upward movement and not because he couldn't come within range of
home plate. I know that the question of whether a fastball can rise en route
from the pitchers hand to home plate is of some dispute among people with
more knowledge of physics than this teachers' union president. The new
biography of Koufax has some commentary on this possibility. I distinctly
remember Etchebarren saying that Dalkowski would throw a fastball that
looked like it was coming in a knee level, only to see it said past the
batter's eyes.
I think that Etchebarren died a couple of years ago. Harry Dunlop, one time
Oriole coach and catcher in Ron Necchai's 27-strikeout performance in
Bristol, VA is still alive. He caught Dalkowski and should be contacted.
Kit Krieger
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4772 Narvaez Drive
Vancouver, BC
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e-mail: kkrieger@bctf.ca
My thanks go to Kit for allowing us to use this. Zerbey 21:43, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Kit Krieger

message: Todo list
* This article should be 100% accurate now, but there's a possibility we missed something
* Colour photograph and a more Recent picture needed
*Date of Birth needed -already added
* More about early life needed
Zerbey 17:54, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Help requested

message: Article states 1939, category states 1938. Which is it? Doovinator 01:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 1938 or 1939?

message: "Dementia" is a fairly broad term.  I know this is wild speculation, but does anyone know if he might have Wernicke's encephalopathy?  The Wikipedia article on it is pretty good, thanks to the diligent cognitive science enthusiasts.--Joel 01:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dementia 

message: for the last 57 innings, he struck out 110, walked 11 and had an ERA of only 0.11
I've seen this quoted before, but I never thought to do the math on it. Turns out, you can't pitch 57 innings and have an ERA of 0.11 -- that would mean Dalkowski gave up seven-tenths of an earned run! (Maybe they meant 1 ER in 57 IP, for an ERA of 0.16.)
:Must have missed this during peer review.  You're right, this simply does not compute. Zerbey 04:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  0.11 ERA? 

message: :Scientists contend that the theoretical maximum speed that a pitcher can throw is around 100 mph. Beyond that the pitcher would cause himself a serious injury.
Can someone please give a reference for this statement?  I'm curious as to how this determination was made, and by whom.  —Steven G. Johnson 00:32, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
* The answer is here. --Arcadian 00:36, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Scientists contend"? 

message: Everything in the stat table (including teams, leagues, league-leading totals) can be sourced to the Baseball America Minor League Register, though the format makes it difficult to decide where to put the tag (it shouldn't be in the section header). MisfitToys 21:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just put it in at the bottom?  Something like "Source: Minor League Register" with a footnote containing a link to their web site.  I wonder if I can find his MLB spring training stats also. Zerbey 01:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics

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message: "According to the Guinness Book of Records, the current record holder for fastest pitch is Nolan Ryan". No, it's now Aroldis Chapman. This is out of date. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:09, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  World record speed