If “60 Minutes” had an interview segment in which tellers of stories about baseball were grilled about some of the fuzzier details of those stories, the interrogator might be K.P. Wee. The viewers would have to be willing to attend to detail. In a 2003 interview quoted in Wee’s new book Don’t Blame the Knuckleballer!, […]
R.A. Dickey, the subject of our previous post on late-blooming knuckleballers, is only the most prominent of today’s knuckleball pitchers, including those who decided to specialize in it only after having already put in a few years of pro ball. (Which is, after all, the typical knuckleballer path. Few start out in pro baseball determined […]
Four scoreless innings is a good start for a pitcher, and that’s what knuckleballer Frank Viola III served up to batters a week ago in his minor-league debut with the Blue Jays organization. MLB.com observes that fellow knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had nothing but positive things to say about a player he helped mentor during the […]
It’s big news when a mainstream pitcher chucks a knuck, judging by the sit-up-straight reaction to Los Angeles Dodger Brian Wilson’s wobbler in the Dodgers’ March 4 game with the Seattle Mariners. And it was “actually pretty good,” judges HardballTalk’s D.J. Short. We probably should have seen this coming, as Josh Tucker of Dodgers Insider […]