![]() So 115 mph is probably out of the realm of possibility, but then again. The southpaw was clocked at 105.1 mph while pitching for the Reds in 2011. The fastest pitch ever recorded was thrown by current Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman. and then some.Ī few claim his heater was as fast as 115, which hardly seems possible. ![]() Anyone who saw him pitch swears he cracked triple digits. Unlike today, pitchers who threw in excess of 95 mph were rarities. However, everyone agreed on one thing: his fastball wasįast. There is no official record of how hard the 5-foot-11, 175-pound left-hander threw. In that era, radar guns were used by the police, not baseball scouts. Such was the reputation with which he found himself as an Orioles prospect making his debut in 1957. ![]() 'Haven't seen anyone like him'įrom the time he was growing up in New Britain, Connecticut, through the end of his nine-year professional career with Class A San Jose in 1965, Dalkowski was the pitcher no one wanted to face. But they probably know his cinematic alter ego: Nuke LaLoosh. It's not a stretch to say most baseball followers have never heard of Steve Dalkowski. His name doesn't conjure many, if any, memories for casual fans. He never stepped foot on a Major League mound and was out of the sport well before his 30th birthday. ![]() Former players swear he was the hardest thrower they had ever seen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 2004, Jessica Sharzer directed the film adaptation, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda. However, the book has faced censorship for its mature content. Since its publication, the novel has won several awards and has been translated into sixteen languages. The novel was based on Anderson's personal experience of having been raped as a teenager and the trauma she faced. Additionally, Anderson employs intertextual symbolism in the narrative, incorporating fairy tale imagery, such as Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and author Maya Angelou, to further represent Melinda's trauma. Melinda's story is written in a diary format, consisting of a nonlinear plot and jumpy narrative that mimics the trauma she experienced. ![]() Speak is considered a problem novel, or trauma novel. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Melinda is then ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. After Melinda is raped at an end of summer party, she calls the police, who break up the party. Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such a turn of phrase powerfully captures the malaise, the noxious particles, the despair that beset his fictional characters, and at times perhaps even Percy himself. To use one of Percy’s favorite (if grim) expressions, it is death-in-life. The tragedy has rather to do with the fundamental banality, the loss of meaning, of modern life-what Heidegger calls the “every-day-ness” and the homelessness of life in the modern world, a world which Marcel refers to as a broken world. These particular events are only symptoms of the tragedy indeed they might even be said to be desperate attempts to escape it. This tragedy is not the catastrophic wars of the 20th century-though God knows these are tragic enough. The modern world, not merely the slums of Paris but the pleasant American suburb, is implicated in a special sort of tragedy. What it is becomes clear in the writings of Heidegger and Marcel. ![]() Something is dreadfully wrong with the world of the emotionally mature, integrated man. In an unpublished essay from the late 1950s called “Which Way Existentialism,” Walker Percy offered his assessment of contemporary American life: ![]() |