The knuckleball has long been one of baseball’s most esteemed and bizarre traditions. Now it is nearing extinction. This year, major league pitchers have thrown only 15 knuckleballs. Those have come ...
The knuckleball has returned to Major League Baseball. From 2020-22, there were only 111 knuckleballs thrown league-wide, many by position players messing around during pitching appearances.
The knuckleball is perhaps the trickiest pitch to throw in Major League Baseball. So few pitchers throw it, whenever one pitcher throws it well, it's big news. The knuckleball's only full-time ...
Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern didn't know much about baseball before the 2011 major league season. The co-directors of the documentary "Knuckleball!" had different views of the pitch that would be ...