{"id":1229,"date":"2009-05-29T01:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2009-05-29T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T06:26:17","slug":"the-fastest-pitcher-ever-and-its-not-who-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Pitcher Ever, and It&#8217;s Not Who You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardballtimes.com\/main\/article\/delving-into-the-dalkowski-depths\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article<\/a> about a little-known pitcher from the 1950s and 1960s named Steve Dalkowski. Everyone who saw him pitch said he was absolutely the fastest pitcher they&#8217;d ever seen, faster than Ryan, Feller, or any of the other fireballers who might come to mind. Unfortunately his speed was all he had; his control was nonexistant. For his career, he averaged 6.2 hits and 12.6 strikeouts per 9 innings (!) in the minors, but also 12.2 walks, which prevented him from ever reaching the big leagues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an interesting article about a little-known pitcher from the 1950s and 1960s named Steve Dalkowski. Everyone who saw him pitch said he was absolutely the fastest pitcher they&#8217;d ever seen, faster than Ryan, Feller, or any of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}