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" ...

If the name “Anthony Gose” sounds familiar, it’s because he was at one point floated in trade talks between the Mets and Blue Jays for R.A. Dickey, though he did not end up in the trade.

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 ... Dickey would post an impressive 2.84 ERA in 26 starts for the New York Mets. Two years after that, he’d win the ...