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by Grant Brisbee • Feb 19, 2012 3:07 PM EST
The retirement of Tim Wakefield gives us a chance to revisit the New Yorker's 2004 take on the fluttery magic of the knuckleball.
The knuckleball—also known as the knuckler, the fingernail ball, the fingertip ball, the flutterball, the floater, the dancer, the bug, the butterfly ball, the moth, the bubble, the ghostball, the horseshoe, the dry spitter, and, curiously, the spinner—has been around, in one form or another, for nearly as long as professional baseball itself ...
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this was a great read, by the way
Bummer that Zink never made it.
by nate johnson's freshman season on Feb 20, 2012 11:44 PM EST reply actions
Some of the best baseball writing ever
I wish the New Yorker did more (they had a great article on Barry Bonds back when he was chasing the HR record) but I suppose they’ve got “better” things to do.
by J0SER on Feb 21, 2012 3:09 AM EST reply actions
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