From the Archives: “The Mysterious Floating Sensation”

August 11, 2020 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

The following was originally posted on October 6, 2008 and an abridged version appears in Baseball’s Untold History: The Wild Side published by Summer Game Books in 2017. Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question. Eddie Cicotte is widely recognized as the inventor of the knuckleball, earning his nickname “Knuckles” around 1908, his first […]

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Little Billy Makes His Play

August 22, 2010 by John Cappello · 2 Comments

Little Billy squeezed the handle of his new bat so hard his knuckles were glowing white. His new high performance stick with the composite barrel and optimum swing flex was supposed to eliminate all of his hitting flawsâ€”at least that’s what his dad was banking on when he tossed his credit card onto the counter […]

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