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RJM62

RJM62

Touchdown! Greaser!
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-Rich
 
Works with a volleyball serve as well, except in that case the unaided human eye can see it wobble. :yesnod:
 
I've thrown a few knuckleballs like that in softball as well. Helps more when there's a wind blowing out to center.
 
EdFred said:
I've thrown a few knuckleballs like that in softball as well. Helps more when there's a wind blowing out to center.
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I threw some in baseball in high school. I should have thrown more breaking balls and fewer fastballs. Maybe I wouldn't have messed up my shoulder by the time I was 18. That happens a lot to short-ish guys who try to throw heat, I've learned since then.

-Rich
 
I used to play slow pitch softball with a guy who could underhand fast-pitch a softball knuckleball. He'd whip one at me now and then when we were warming up.

I read an interview with, I think, Charlie Hough or one of the Niekros. He was asked about the best pitch he ever threw. He said it was the time a batter swung and missed at a pitch that ended up breaking behind him.
 
Seanaldinho said:
If you strike a soccer ball perfectly through the center it will knuckle. It bounces around like that and doesnt rotate much if at all.
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Especially those damn Jabulanis. We used those for all our league play and they wreak havoc on you as a goalie.
 
I miss Ueck. Is he still calling any games?

I remember a game he called when a catcher got a foul tip right where catchers don't want a foul tip. His description of the whole experience had me falling out of my chair.
 
RJM62 said:
I threw some in baseball in high school. I should have thrown more breaking balls and fewer fastballs. Maybe I wouldn't have messed up my shoulder by the time I was 18. That happens a lot to short-ish guys who try to throw heat, I've learned since then.

-Rich
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a pitching coach who would advocate more breaking stuff and fewer fastballs as a way to preserve your arm...
 
Pilawt said:
I heard him on Brewers broadcasts over XM this past season, and he still heads up the broadcast team per the Brewers' website.
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He always joked about how he liked radio over TV. He could then call a lazy fly ball as, "It's back!!! Way, back!!! To the track, and he's OUT!!!" The radio listeners would never be the wiser.
 
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