Don’t Tell Tim Wakefield
Apparently, the knuckleball is dying in Major League Baseball. But don’t tell Tim Wakefield that. Sports Illustrated’s John Bolster wrote a nice article about the history of the knuckleball and it’s fade from the sport.
In the Red Sox clubhouse a few hours before the start of a drizzly, early-May game against the Rays, Tim Wakefield wraps his hand around a brand-new baseball and models his knuckleball grip. On television, Wakefield’s grip appears claw-like and uncomfortable, but up close, it looks effortless: His hand envelopes the ball easily, fingertips lodged just below the seam, ball snug against his palm. It’s a grip that has helped him to more than 170 victories and a solid, if sometimes strange, 16-year major-league career.
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