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Dalkowski seems pure fiction. In four years with six clubs in six minor leagues, he has struck out 665 batters, walked 726, thrown as many as six wild pitches in a row, broken one hitter's arm, torn the lobe off another's ear, and sent an unsuspecting umpire to the hospital with a stray fastball that popped him flush on the mask, knocked him 18 ft., chest pad over whisk broom. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., in 1958, Dalkowski pitched a one-hitter and lost, 9 to 8. Against Reno's Silver Sox this summer, he whiffed...
...tough medical facts: the upper lobe of his left lung was cancerous and had to be removed. The cancer, which was suspected from X rays taken two weeks ago when Godfrey complained of chest pains, may have been caught in time. (The survival rate is 35% when the cancer has not spread...
...Lobe Trotter. In Wilmington, Del., a letter turned up at the post office bearing a glueless stamp held in place by an earring...
...qualities, they note, came at 12½, when she began to have "mixed sensations of sight and sound, coming from her right, together with touch and smell . . . The sensations were generally accompanied by a bright light." Modern neurology attributes such symptoms to disease in the brain's temporal lobe, close to the sphenoid bone, where it may affect the nerves for several senses...
What other evidence is there that Joan had bovine TB? One obvious item, Dr. Butterfield noted, was that she did not menstruate. Another was that when she was ill in prison at Rouen she appeared to have a kidney infection. And if she had something wrong with her temporal lobe, it was most likely a tuberculoma (a "firm, cheeselike abscess"), because when she jumped from the tower of Beaurevoir (variously estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn...