The knuckleball has returned to Major League Baseball. From 2020-22, there were only 111 knuckleballs thrown league-wide, many by position players messing around during pitching appearances.

Then a year or two later, he had a 1-1 count on me -- and threw me a knuckleball. I took the pitch, stepped out of the box and just started smiling because I had never seen him throw a knuckleball.

Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse ...