When Dickie Thon was plunked in the head by a Mike Torrez pitch in 1984, he went from a potential superstar to a ‘what could have been’ career. Somehow he played another 9 years despite being barely able to see out of one eye. He says in this Greg Hanlon Vice Sports story that it was like “looking through a sheet of wax paper”.
Before Carlos Correa, there was Dickie Thon
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