Porter Johnson, a physics professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and an avid baseball fan, supplies the following answer. Actually a good knuckleball does have a slight rotation¿it makes ...

It ducks and dives and tails away. It flutters and then suddenly falls, as if shot from the sky. It's been alternately described as a "whiffle ball in a wind tunnel," a "circus pitch" and a pitch that ...

Steven V. Roberts teaches journalism and politics at George Washington University and frequently reviews sports books for the Post. KNUCKLEBALL By Lew Freedman Sports Publishing. 310 pp. $24.99 You ...

Tune in to CNN Newsroom this Monday, July 9, for a new segment on the remarkable life and season of R.A. Dickey. Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey is an All-Star for the first time at 37, an age when most ...

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.

Drew Butler and his 'knuckleball' Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. You’ve heard of a knuckleball pitcher in baseball. But have you ever heard of such a thing as an ...

Four godfathers of the knuckleball -- Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough, Tim Wakefield and Wilbur Wood, who won a combined 898 games in 85 major-league seasons -- share similar stories of finding salvation ...

This is the online version of our morning newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. Baseball is a goofy game where ...

The tightknit knuckleball community includes Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and two-time World Series champion Tim Wakefield. They showed that, if mastered, the ...

This is the Morning Win, by Andy Nesbitt. Baseball is a goofy game where a pitcher tries to throw a ball really fast past a hitter who has a wooden bat and is trying their best to hit that really fast ...