ESPN.com has a cool video feature with Mariners pitcher R.A. Dickey explaining the knuckleball.
“Jim Caple Catches Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey”
And check out the followup article: “Why didn’t Mama teach me the knuckleball?”
By the eighth or ninth time — or perhaps the 12th or 13th — I ran to the backstop to chase after a pitch from Seattle’s R.A. Dickey, I should have asked myself, “Why don’t more pitchers learn to throw the knuckleball? And why don’t more teams teach it to their borderline pitchers?
“And most importantly, given how much money Tim Wakefield has made throwing it, why didn’t someone ever teach me how to throw the knuckleball?”