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knuckleball

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knuckle ball or knuck·le·ball (nkl-bôl)
n. Baseball
A slow, randomly fluttering pitch thrown by gripping the ball with the tips or nails of two or three fingers.
knuckle·baller n.
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Noun1.knuckleball - a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin
knuckler
pitch, delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
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Eri Yoshida, nicknamed "Princess Knuckle", was drafted last year for a new independent league team, the Kobe 9 Cruise, which praised her side-armed knuckleball, a low-speed style of pitching.
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Tim Wakefield got the Jays to make 16 outs on fly balls and popups and the ancient knuckleball practitioner pitched the Red Sox to a 2-1 victory last night.
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