Ump'ing Knucks Ain't Easy The umpire seeing a strike stands as perhaps the most difficult obstacle for knuckleball pitchers. The slow speed, zero spin and erratic movement drops the ball into the zone at strange angles. And that can spin an ump cross-eyed. There are strategies passed on down to me from Charlie Hough and Phil Niekro to mitigate this issue, but what you really need is a committed umpire that'll follow the ball until the end while calling the pitch crossing the plate; not where it'

One of the all-time great knuckleballers that paved the way The first reliever elected to the Hall of Fame Most appearances by a picture when he retired with 1070 Pitched until he was almost 50 years old And did it with shrapnel in his back from World War II Legend! #knuckleball #mlb #pitching | Joe Zeller