- frequently. The
lower physical strain also
fosters longer careers. Some
knuckleballers have
continued to
pitch professionally well into
their forties: Tim...
-
starting pitching staff that
almost exclusively used the pitch, with four
knuckleballers in the rotation. That season, the team's
three catchers —
regular catcher...
- "Here are the best
knuckleballers of all time". MLB.com. Sibor,
Douglas (May 12, 2012). "MLB:
Ranking the 10
Greatest Knuckleballers of All Time". Bleacher...
- ****ey and
Boston Red Sox
pitcher Steven Wright were the only two
active knuckleballers in the Majors. ****ey
attended Montgomery Bell
Academy in Nashville...
- the
Boston Red Sox. He
worked with Phil and Joe Niekro, two
former knuckleballers, who
encouraged him to use the
knuckleball as an out pitch. With the...
- who in both 1944 and 1945
fielded a
starting rotation featuring four
knuckleballers (Mickey Haefner,
Dutch Leonard and
Roger Wolff were the others). Niggeling's...
- very complicated, with a
number of steps. DIP ERA is not as
useful for
knuckleballers and
other "trick" pitchers, a
factor that
McCracken mentioned a few...
- catchers, such as
Victor Martinez, use a
first base mitt
while catching knuckleballers,
though doing so
comes with a disadvantage:
because first ba**** are...
- Fidrych's 1976
season games. The two
continued as a
battery through 1977.
Knuckleballers have
often preferred pitching to "personal"
batterymates due to the...
- come-from-behind 5–4 NL victory,
culminating in Clemente's walk-off
single off
knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm.
Clemente started again in
right field for the
second All-Star...
