Upon reaching the Kilimanjaro summit, “I somehow feel smaller than I have ever felt in my life,” he wrote. “It is intoxicating.” That year, RA had the best season of his baseball career. Stretching beyond his comfort zone of the fast knuckleball, he developed one that was extremely slow, changing up speeds to leave batters guessing about when to swing as well as where. They would sometimes burst out laughing at how badly they missed the ball.
