10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNUCKLER»
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knuckler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Knuckler: My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch
Knuckler is the story of how a struggling position player bet his future on a fickle pitch that would define his career. The pitch may drive hitters crazy, but how does the pitcher stay sane?
2
Knuckler, the Phil Niekro Story
A biography of the man who overcame many odds to become a top major league pitcher known for his knuckleball.
Mr. Knuckler was duly nominated and seconded. Mr. Charles Doborough was
duly nominated and seconded also, and having been called upon by the
assembled crowd for a speech (Knuckler being known to be dumb as an oyster),
Jerry ...
4
The Mayan Magician and Other Stories
three days, I could have never accomplished such a feat, but my knuckler was
certainly the key to my victories. The bottom of the ninth was broadcast by Vince
Scully, who was the guest broadcaster for the international feed. The old Dodger
...
5
News: How it is Written and Edited
"I can't catch his knuckler," said Phelps sullenly. "If you can't catch It," said 01'
Case, "It could be that the batter would have even more trouble in hittin' it" That
happened close to a quarter of a century ago. Over the intervening years
catchers ...
He was sacrificed to second, took third when another knuckle-ball delivery
slipped entirely past Ray for a wild pitch, and scored when a third knuckler went
through the catcher for a passed ball. End of game, end of story and almost the
end of ...
7
Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's ...
Billy came to the mound and told me, 'OK, maybe not your best knuckler.' So I
threw some much slower, and he hit a few, and then I hit him with a pitch. The
whole crew came running out, like he was dead. I said, 'Hey, it was only fifty mph.
That leaves the change-up, which he doesn't have, and the knuckler he fools
around with on the side and has never thrown in a game. He plants his foot on
the rubber, grips the ball with the tips of all four fingers and his thumb. The
knuckler.
9
Planet of the Umps: A Baseball Life from Behind the Plate
So Charlie learned to throw the knuckler in about a week — and two years later
he was making his major league debut. Lasorda brought him in to face the
Pirates' Hall of Famer Willie Star- gell late in a game with two out and the bases
loaded.
Ken Kaiser, David Fisher, 2004
10
My Team: Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball
When he made it to the major leagues with the Cubs in 1967, he didn't even
throw the knuckler. Joe won 25 or 30 games as a conventional pitcher before he
gave his heart and soul to the capricious pitch his brother, Hoyt Wilhelm, and a
few ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KNUCKLER»
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knuckler is used in the context of the following news items.
Huntersville's Hoyt Wilhelm was history's best knuckleball pitcher …
Wilhelm pitched for Cornelius High – where he first learned how to throw the knuckler that would make him famous. He would say many times ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
West splits Saturday games, heads to bronze-medal match …
When West reliever Tyler McClanahan induced a groundout to third baseman Jake Divers to end the 10-9 white knuckler, the sense of relief ... «Roanoke Times, Jul 15»
Blue Jays stranding R.A. Dickey as he finds groove - Jays Journal
After coming over from the New York Mets for a package of prospects that we'd all like to forget, the aging knuckler has not materialized into the ... «Jay's Journal, Jul 15»
Canada survives a mighty Argentine scare in women's basketball
This was a white knuckler especially late in the third quarter when the visitors in the pale blue stripes tied the affair with six minutes to play and ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
Union about to get look at MVP frontrunner Giovinco
... dead-ball delivery, demonstrated by a stunning knuckler from 33 yards out that made the difference in Toronto's 1-0 win at PPL Park May 2. «The Times Herald, Jul 15»
A belated farewell to Ken Stabler, the perfect Raider, the bad boy all …
Maybe you've tried to hit a knuckler. It looks so easy. It floats up there. You take a big sweeping cut because you know you'll hit it 300 feet. «PennLive.com, Jul 15»
Clay Buchholz exits Friday's start against the Yankees with elbow …
Also, Wright is a knuckler, which means that his arm isn't going to get blown out if you use him fairly often. Ross should never have been called ... «NBCSports.com, Jul 15»
Samardzija shuts out Blue Jays, White Sox take 3 of 4
The Sox scrounged together five hits against R.A. Dickey (3-10), whose knuckler was on, but Samardzija's frontline effort and crisp defense ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
White Sox 2, Blue Jays 0: Samardzija shuts down Toronto
Chances are pretty good Eaton would have scored anyway, as a couple pitches later, Cabrera crushed a Dickey knuckler to rightfield for his ... «South Side Sox, Jul 15»
East Xtra: Irwin Legion team primed for playoffs
... isn't enough to throw off hitters in a best-of-three series, how about lefty Dan Lagnese's split-fingered pitch or Nick Amendola's knuckler? «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
