How to Hold a Knuckleball

There’s a lot of misinformation when it comes to the knuckleball. A lot of people think the pitch is easy because it looks easy on TV, but if you actually try to throw a baseball with no spin off of your fingernails at 67 miles-per-hour then you realize just how difficult that is to do. […]

Tim Wakefield Knuckleball: A Tutorial

Tim Wakefield is the guy who inspired me to become a knuckleball pitcher. In fact, I was so fascinated with the knuckleball at an early age that I never pitched conventionally in my life. And it’s all due to that nasty Tim Wakefield knuckleball. My father had season tickets to the Red Sox, and we […]

Consistency

I get knuckleballers all over the world contacting me about the difficulty of the knuckleball. I think we’ve all been there. We’re out in the backyard and we want to show off our awesome pitch, but it just isn’t always there. You might throw three good ones only to throw ten bad ones right after […]

Do You Have What It Takes? Do You Have The Stuff?

Be prepared to change your body and mind to become the best The question I am most asked is, “How do you release the knuckleball?” I tell them the usual answer — the knuckleball has less to do with the release and more to do with mechanics than you think. I could tell you how […]

Knuckleball Grip, Part 3: Depth of the Baseball

Phil Niekro’s tight, deep grip As I stated in the previous post about grips, there is one overriding rule to a great knuckleball grip — remove as many variable as possible to put yourself into position to have a chance of killing the spin entirely. That means using two fingertips to throw the ball instead […]

Steven Wright’s Hot Streak and The Importance of Mobility

Mid-pitch, you can really see Steven Wright’s thoracic mobility Steven Wright of the Red Sox has been on an absolute tear this season, emerging at the Sox most consistent pitcher. And that’s saying a lot considering the team’s payroll and superstar pitchers like David Price, Clay Buccholz and Rick Porcello. Wright’s dominant streak this season […]

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 […]

Knuckle Ball Pitcher – How to Get Noticed

Scouts at an open tryout aren’t likely to give the knuckleball any attention Young, aspiring professional knuckle ball pitchers reach out to me here at Knuckleball Nation all the time. And one question I get a lot is this — How do I get noticed as a knuckleball pitcher? How do I break into the […]

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