Tom Chiappetta, the Connecticut native who took 30 years to assemble the documentary, has been unable to uncover film of Dalkowski pitching in a game. “But it also talks to the foibles that all of us as individuals have.”Indeed, so much about Dalkowski is legend. Hundreds of newspaper obituaries were written about Dalkowski, but Vikander says most contained errors. Chiappetta, who “barely scratched the surface” with his documentary, says that Dalkowski’s “legend continues. Dalkowski once threw 283 pitches in a single game – 120 is considered excessive nowadays.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2020 09:56 UTC