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I'm Jesse Thorn. In baseball, there's the fastball, the curveball, and for a select few,

there's the knuckleball. In actuality, you're throwing it with your fingernails,

taking off all the spin that you can.

One of my guests this week is Ra Dickey. He's a pitcher for the New York Metz,

and he's the only knuckleballer left in the big leagues.

You know, I have thrown knuckleballs that you can actually read the writing on the baseball,

as it comes in. It's Bullseye.

This week, Metz pitcher Ra Dickey talks about fighting his way through 10 years as a

marginal professional baseball player, before giving himself over to the uncontrollable,

but devastating knuckleball. Plus, find out why he has a bat named

Fronting. Yes, that's the name of Beowulf Sword.

We travel back to the early 60s on the streets of San Francisco where James P.

Coil and Mal Sharp convince a Navy man to rob a bank for them.

All, as they say, in the interests of humor.

And I'll tell you about a radio show that's not this one that you really ought to hear.

All that and more this week on Bullseye. Let's go.

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