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Will the knuckleball ever make a comeback?The knuckleball might not be dead, but it’s certainly on life support. There are only two active players who’ve primarily used a knuckleball at the Major League level: Steven Wright, who is currently a free agent and hasn’t pitched in the Majors since 2019 and Mickey Jannis, who is also a free agent...

Toronto's Lefty Knuckleballer Took The Longest Road Back To The BigsOn Saturday, in his first big league start since September 2008, Ryan Feierabend threw the first complete game of his career. It was less triumphant than it sounds. Feiereabend threw four full innings in a game that wound up getting called in the fifth due to rain, allowing four runs on seven hits,...

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Rays Hero Dan Johnson Is Reportedly Returning To The Team As A Knuckleball Pitcher

Remember back in 2011 when Dan Johnson hit one of the most dramatic home runs of the century against the Yankees, to send the Tampa Bay Rays to the playoffs on the last day of the season? Here’s a refresher....

Watch these R.A. Dickey knuckleballs go crazy. Wheee! [@DShep25]...

The Japanese Version Of <em>Sport Science</em> Is Awesome

We've said before in this space that ESPN's pseudoscientific Sport Science segments are "sneakily awful," but this weekend I happened across something from Japanese national broadcaster NHK that puts ESPN to shame....

An Angels Reliever Is Throwing A Pitch No One Has Seen In A Long Time

Robert Coello, a 28-year-old righty in the Angels' pen, has appeared in but eight games this season. Yet what games they were! He has faced 38 batters and struck out 18 of them, with only six hits and one walk allowed. What's to credit? A pitch that might be magic....

Here's A Sneak Peek At A New Documentary On Knuckleball Pitchers

R.A. Dickey is one of the best stories in baseball this year, partly due to his singular, newfound success and the fact that he's doing it in a way different from every single other big league pitcher. As fate would have it, documentarians Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern shadowed Dickey and Tim Wake...

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Tim Wakefield Is Retiring After 19 Weird, Fluttery Seasons And 200 Wins

The knuckleballer's mystique has long fascinated us. Our curiosity was only further piqued when Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough, R.A. Dickey, and Tim Wakefield went on a two-day retreat together in Georgia in the offseason. They're a fraternity of oddballs who throw odd balls....

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Preeminent Knuckleballers Hang Out Together In Their Spare Time

Unlikely Mets ace R.A. Dickey tweeted last night about an event that we've imagined so often in our dreams. Great knuckleballers are friends in real life!...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

How To Throw A Knuckleball, Starring Jim Bouton

This is the first of an occasional video series in which someone good at something doable teaches you how to do it. Today we have Jim Bouton, former major leaguer and author of the great Ball Four, demonstrating his old signature pitch, the knuckleball....

by Tommy Craggs|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Attack Of The Eri Yoshida

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Anyone Can Throw A Knuckleball!

We've always thought if there were a mainstream sports breakthrough for a woman, a sport in which a woman could compete on the same field as men, it would be as a knuckleball pitcher in Major League Baseball. It doesn't require strength, and you need to be smart. And not just women can do it: Old me...

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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