Chris Nowlin would love to teach you how to throw a knuckleball. He runs his “Knuckleball Academy” out of a baseball training facility 10 blocks south of Los Angeles International Airport. He aspires ...

The knuckleball has long been one of baseball’s most esteemed and bizarre traditions. Now it is nearing extinction. This year, major league pitchers have thrown only 15 knuckleballs. Those have come ...

A good knuckleball is beauty in the absence of motion. So much of baseball, of sports, of life is an exhibition of constant movement, perpetual motion. Things happen, and when they do, they are ...

During a throwing session amid his first spring training with the San Diego Padres last season, Matt Waldron decided on a whim to change things up and toss a knuckleball. Waldron initially taught ...

PEORIA, Ariz. PEORIA, Ariz. — Matthew Batten exhaled and cursed in the same breath as Matt Waldron’s 2-0 knuckleball danced in on his hands in his first live batting practice of the spring . It wasn’t ...

The knuckleball may not have been a pitch that was in George Kirby's arsenal, but he had no problem busting it out in Sunday's regular-season finale. The Seattle Mariners starter tossed a knuckleball ...

The knuckleball is truly a lost art when it comes to big-league pitches. Gone are the days of pitchers like R.A. Dickey winning a Cy Young Award thanks to a devastating knuckleball. These days, it's ...

San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron has found success with his knuckleball this season, and one particular pitch from Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels helped illustrate why.