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How R.A. Dickey Found Hope Beyond the Mound

How R.A. Dickey Found Hope Beyond the Mound

Update: 2025-11-21
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On this episode of Our American Stories, R.A. Dickey’s rise to a Cy Young Award made him the face of the modern knuckleball, but the story that shaped him started long before baseball noticed his talent. As a kid, he carried trauma he didn’t have words for and a silence that followed him well into adulthood. That silence eventually caught up to him, nearly costing him everything he had worked for. Dickey talks about the turning points that mattered most and how honesty, more than any pitch, gave him a way forward.

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How R.A. Dickey Found Hope Beyond the Mound

How R.A. Dickey Found Hope Beyond the Mound

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