Unlike baseball’s other pitches — the fastball, the curve, the slider — the knuckleball does not rely on spin and velocity to defeat hitters at the plate. Instead, the knuckleball floats in at a ...

Throwing a knuckleball is harder than it looks. The delicate pitch has a mind of its own, bobbing in the breeze like a butterfly. When it works, it makes fools out of sluggers. Yet only about 70 ...

The mystique of the knuckleball goes hand-in-glove with the stigma: It’s considered the pitch of last resort for broken-down hurlers or aging position players still clinging to the majors, yet those ...