R.A. Dickey is always happy to talk to a young knuckleballer. When the Jays ended up with two — in prospects Ryan Chasse and Jordan Powell — it was enough to get Dickey back to Dunedin.

R.A. Dickey is a starting pitcher for the New York Mets and author of the memoir "Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball" ...

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A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further.

I t was late July of 2008 when R.A. Dickey got an unexpected invitation from Tim Wakefield. Dickey was in the big leagues with the Seattle Mariners at the time, trying to extend his new ...