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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.

You should support the show like I did. Just visit maximum fun.org slash donate. I'm Jesse Thorne. 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 R.A. Dickey.

He's a pitcher for the New York Mets,

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

You know, I have thrown knuckle balls

that you can actually read the writing on the baseball

as it comes in.

It's Bullseye.

This week, Mets pitcher R.A. 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's sword.

We travel back to the early 60s on the streets of San Francisco

where James Pete 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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