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Dickey was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the first round (18th overall) of the 1996 MLB draft.After being drafted by the Rangers, Dickey was initially offered a signing bonus of $825,000, before a Rangers team physician saw Dickey's throwing (right) arm hanging oddly in a picture of him with other Team USA players in Baseball America.
Wilbur Wood, Joe Niekro, and R. A. Dickey have won The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award. In 2012, Dickey became the only knuckleballer to have won the Cy Young Award. Phil Niekro is the only knuckleball pitcher to win 300 games. [5]
Knuckleball! is a 2012 documentary film that follows the 2011 seasons of Tim Wakefield and R. A. Dickey, Major League Baseball's only knuckleball pitchers that year. [1] It was released in theaters on September 20, 2012, and on DVD on April 2, 2013. [2] Wakefield won his 200th game in 2011 and Dickey won the 2012 Cy Young Award.
Robert B. Dickey (1811–1903), Canadian politician Robert S. Dickey (1921–1991), American phytopathologist Robert J. Dickey (born c. 1957), American business executive
Dickeya is a genus of the family Pectobacteriaceae that consists mainly of pathogens from herbaceous plants.Dickeya is the result of the reclassification of 75 strains of Pectobacterium chrysanthemi, as well as Brenneria paradisiaca CFBP 4178, into a new genus.
E. M. O'R. Dickey (1 July 1894 – 12 August 1977) was a wood engraver who was active at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers . [ 1 ]
Timothy Stephen Wakefield (August 2, 1966 – October 1, 2023) was an American professional baseball knuckleball pitcher.Wakefield began his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but is most remembered for his 17-year tenure with the Boston Red Sox, from 1995 until his retirement in 2012 as the longest-serving player on the team, earning a total of $55 million. [1]
Dickey attended public schools in Riverside, California. In 1941, he earned an A.A. degree from the Riverside Junior College. [1]Dickey earned a BS degree in plant science in 1948, [2] and in 1954 earned a PhD in plant pathology on the thesis Studies of the Longevity of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend) Conn in the Soil, both at the University of California, Berkeley.