knuckle_balls.mp4

[00:00:05] The most often asked question I ever get, how do I learn to throw the knuckleball? It started when I was a kid and it was like a fun thing that I would do with my dad. It was a game of catch and I used to wait for him to get home from work, and I'd have a couple of gloves out on the lawn and he'd get out of his car pool and he told me pop ups and ground balls and stuff and then we'd play catch and he'd throw a knuckleball and I was just a little kid at the time I was probably seven eight nine 10 years old and I couldn't get like he used to throw it with his knuckles down on the ball. 

[00:00:34] And I could never do that so I had a dig like my fingernails and just to be able to throw it back to him. And that's how it started. Just like a nice friendly game of catch with your dad. And then it just kind of developed. You know I started throwing it. You know I throw once in around Little League I throw it when I got to high school I start throwing them more and I got to college. And then when I got in professional baseball I got to I got to the big leagues as a regular pitcher. But it was keeping myself in the big leagues and I needed something else, you know a change up pitch something that will compliment my other stuff, and the knuckleball is that pitch and I start throwing it more and more. About 1986 or so I got to the big leagues and the more I threw it seemed like the better it got and even to this day I'm still learning about it. But, to say anyone who's ever fully understand everything about the knuckleball. Some of the wrong. But you know I'm still trying to learn.