Nobody Hits It; an article about Hoyt Wilhelm’s knuckler in a 1959 Sports Illustrated
Nobody Hits It; an article about Hoyt Wilhelm’s knuckler in a 1959 Sports Illustrated Hoyt Wilhelm shows how to throw his knuckleball in this 1959 Sports Illustrated By Roy Terrell One of the pitching sensations of the 1959 major league season is a 35-year-old cotton farmer from North Carolina who throws a baseball for the […]
1959 Scientific Expose on the Knuckler from Sports Illustrated
Scientific Expose The flow of air around a moving baseball knuckler is always fairly irregular. This is because a baseball is a blunt object, as opposed to a streamlined object such as an airplane wing, and the air through which is passes must do quite a bit of hurrying to get out of the way. […]
The Importance of Mentality to a Knuckle Ball Pitcher
It hit me like a freight train. My first professional appearance took place in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the Lincoln Saltdogs. And mind you, I had never really played baseball before. I didn’t play in high school and I only played sparingly on a club team in college. But lets rewind this story a little bit […]
Knuckleball Grips, Part 2
Phil Niekro showing his grip at the Baseball Hall of Fame As I discussed earlier, there are a few different ways to grip the knuckleball. And if you can throw a ball without any spin at 65-plus miles-per-hour, than you’ve got a great knuckleball grip. But there are overwhelming similarities between the grips of the […]
Knuckleball Grips, Part 1
The foundation of any great knuckleball is the grip, but there is a lot of confusion out there about proper knuckleball grips. Now, I say knuckleball grips because there is more than one way to hold a knuckleball, mainly because all of our hands are unique. But that doesn’t mean that you can hold the […]
Nationwide Knuckle Ball Camps
This is the first year that I have really gone out and traveled the country putting on camps. Knuckleball Nation has been seen in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Arizona and California. And I hope this is just the beginning. I’ve hit the road for a few very important reasons. This whole small business […]
