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To: Red Badger
I have always admired knuckle ball pitchers. That is a real
skill to do it well. I could never get the hang of it.

2 posted on 10/02/2023 7:56:01 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

what is a knuckle-ball, exactly? I never knew

what is the benefit?


4 posted on 10/02/2023 7:59:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

It’s pretty hard to throw a baseball with no spin consistently just playing catch, to do it with major league movement for strikes seems impossible to me. Truly the most ‘feel’ of all pitches. It’s a shame it seems to be nigh extinct, they just don’t have patience in development. There’s a good documentary called ‘knuckleball!” that features Wakefield heavily, I think during the 2012 R.A. Dickey Cy Young season if I recall.

Freegards


14 posted on 10/02/2023 8:08:18 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

One thing you can say about pitchers that throw the knuckleball…they’re not likely to ever need TJ. And that’s something these days.


18 posted on 10/02/2023 8:30:21 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

[[I could never get the hang of it.]]

Lol- Punny


22 posted on 10/02/2023 9:04:18 AM PDT by Bob434
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