PHILADELPHIA — On its website, the Shaker Funeral Home, where Steve Dalkowski’s private funeral service took place days after the coronavirus claimed him April 19, describes itself as a “creator of meaningful memories.”
If that’s true, then the mortuary in his hometown of New Britain, Connecticut, was the perfect setting for Dalkowski’s goodbye.
Though he never threw a pitch in the big leagues and lost nearly twice as many games as he won in nine minor league seasons, few in baseball history created more memories than the Orioles’ left-handed pitching prospect of the late 1950s and early ‘60s.