I've never heard of this guy, but he was evidently the inspiration for Nook LaLoosh in Bull Durham.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/remembering ... cher-ever/

Here's a sample of the stats this guy was putting up:

At Stockton in 1960, Dalkowski walked an astronomical 262 batters — and struck out the same number — in 170 innings. The Orioles, who were running out of patience with his wildness both on and off the field, left him exposed in the November 1961 expansion draft, but he went unselected. After hitting a low point at Class B Tri-City in 1961 (8.39 ERA, with 196 walks — 17.1 per nine! — in 103 innings), the 23-year-old lefty again wound up under the tutelage of Weaver. The future Hall of Fame skipper cautioned him that he’d be dead by age 33 if he kept drinking to such extremes. He also learned, via a team-administered IQ test, that Dalkowski scored the lowest on the team.

That's too bad. He was in the Fastball doc. They interviewed an ump who called one of his games and he said he busted his facemask. Very sad story as he finally made the major league team and blew his arm out throwing to 1st I believe.

Fastball is a great doc.

Sad, but a great story.