Doctors Trying to Save Dravecky’s Arm
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic are administering daily doses of radiation to the left arm of former San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky in an effort to avoid amputation, clinic spokesman Marian Mosley said Wednesday.
Dravecky, of Youngstown, Ohio, started the daily treatments Monday and will be treated for about two weeks as an outpatient, Mosley said.
Dravecky pitched eight years in the major leagues with the San Diego Padres and the Giants before a tumor was discovered in his left arm in September, 1988.
Surgeons removed the tumor and part of the deltoid muscle, and Dravecky returned to baseball in 1989. He won two games before his left humerus bone snapped while he was pitching against the Montreal Expos Aug. 15, 1989.
The bone broke again Oct. 9 when he was hit during the Giants’ National League championship celebration.
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