Knuckleball Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:55:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Knuckleball Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 R. A. Dickey’s Pitches, And Life, Like A Rollercoaster https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/17/1-r-a-dickeys-pitches-and-life-like-a-rollercoaster/ Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:08:01 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10056 When the new pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team – R. A. Dickey – throws a pitch, it goes up and down like a rollercoaster.

A rollercoaster: just like his childhood, his career and his life. Although it’s been a bumpy ride, he’s now in a good place as one of the best pitchers in the major leagues.

This year, he signed a contract for three years, for more than $25-million.

That’s a long way from the $11,000 a year he used to make as pitcher in the minor leagues.

At that time, around 2005, Dickey was a struggling pitcher throwing fastballs. But the batters were able to hit them, and sometimes knock them out of the park.

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