"Project Knuckleball"
 

Posted By: <b>Bill Cornell</b><p>This week's New Yorker has a good article on the knuckleball and the men who've thrown it: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact1" target=_new>http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact1</a>. Eddie Cicotte and Toad Ramsey (?) get mentions.

"Project Knuckleball"
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Knuckleballers have always been my favorites; I even like Wakefield despite his association with that hidepus team to the north of NYC. I find them to be the most entertaining players out there. Perhaps it is the counter-intuitive absurdity of a player throwing softe and doing better. Perhaps it is the fact that they all look like me <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

"Project Knuckleball"
 

Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Read "The Gray Zone," by Seymour Hersh. I feel like the first pasychiatrist in the 19th century who figured out how and when his 80-year-old patient, dying of some strange brain disease, originally got sick, 60 years earlier. Time to run screaming into the night...

"Project Knuckleball"
 

Posted By: <b>bcornell</b><p><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2001930270_squiggy16.html" target="_blank">Squiggy is in the house: 'Laverne and Shirley' star now M's scout</a>