Dave Dravecky

Once an all-star pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, Dave Dravecky lost the deltoid muscle in his pitching arm to cancer in 1988. Defying all the odds, he came back to pitch again a year later. Just five days after a stunning performance, securing a 4-3 win for his team, Dravecky sustained two successive and devastating injuries to his arm that ended his pitching career for good. In subsequent years, Dravecky would lose his entire arm, his left shoulder blade, and the left side of his collarbone to cancer. But whenever God closes a door, he opens a window_x2014_and the window He opened for Dave led to a career as a best-selling author. Dravecky’ s award-winning first book, Comeback, sold over 650,000 copies. An in-demand speaker, Dave is known for delivering messages of hope and inspiration_x2014_to both Christian and secular audiences. Along with his wife, Jan, Dravecky is also the founder of Dave Dravecky’ s Outreach of Hope, a nonprofit organization and ministry dedicated to helping cancer survivors.