The Pitcher Who Found More Than His Arm

On August 10, 1989, Dave Dravecky walked back to the mound at Candlestick Park to thunderous applause. Just months earlier, surgeons had removed half the deltoid muscle in his left arm to excise a desmoid tumor — the arm he had used to pitch for the San Francisco Giants. The prognosis was grim: he would never pitch again. But there he stood.…