Fidrych Saved Baseball; Baseball Destroyed Fidrych
He was the right man in the right place at the right time.He was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.It feels strange to call Mark Fidrych a "man,"� since in his brief...
Mark FidrychHe was the right man in the right place at the right time.He was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.It feels strange to call Mark Fidrych a "man,"� since in his brief...

Mark Fidrych reminded you of your childhood, no matter how old you were when he pitched. This was his charm, his curse, his legacy. He personified athletic innocence. The Bird got his...

Maybe baseball just seems a touch more magical when you're 9 years old. It just so happened that I was 9 the year that Mark Fidrych came on the scene. And, even now, it seems to me that was...