Knuckleball Nation Camps 2015!
Nation – I have been pretty busy. I’ve taken about three months off of throwing and am just starting to get back into the swing of it. I consider myself lucky to live in LA where I get to throw outside year-round while the rest of the country gets slammed with a winter freeze. And […]
New Knuckleball Products
Chris Nowlin throwing a warm-up knuckleball before a single-A level baseball game Nation, I have been inundated with a bunch of demand. You guys have gone out, watched the instructional DVD and now you are thirsty for more answers. You want to know the ins and outs of the knuckleball. You want to know how […]
One Pitch at a Time
You and the manager are likely to get mad at the umpire, but keep your cool It’s been a while since I have posted, but there’s been something on my mind lately. I am up here in Northern California playing at a high-A level of professional baseball. And the minor leagues come with its own […]
The Knuckle Ball Pitcher’s Cone of Nasty
Feb 19 2014 The Knuckle Ball Pitcher’s Cone of Nasty Drop the ball into the knuckleball pitcher’s cone of nasty The knuckleball flies in the face of conventional pitching. With a conventional pitch, you are trying to impart as much spin on the ball so that the break is sharp. With a knuckleball, you are […]
To Drop-&-Drive, or not to Drop-&-Drive
RA Dickey’s effort-face gets glammed up with fan art Like many of you, I started throwing the knuckleball fairly lightly. I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where Tim Wakefield spent the better part of two decades honing his knuckle ball. On TV, Tim looked like he kind of just lobbed the ball in there. But […]
Knuckleball Grip Tension
One of the finer nuances of the knuckle ball is the grip tension. In my time working with the greats, I have heard a few different things about grip tension. But the grip tension experts can really be broken up into two different camps — The Charlie Hough side and the Phil Niekro side. Charlie […]