[BluesDuke]

*memorial bump*...and proper posting (bloody program!)

Note, too: It was Hoyt Wilhelm whom the Orioles brought in late in the game to stop Roger Maris from nailed home run number 60 in 1961's 154th game, the arbitrary and prejudicial "deadline" set by then-Commissioner Ford Frick for anyone to tie or break Ruthsrecord (yes, they spoke of it such that it could have been one word) "legitimately". Tom Candiotti, a fine knuckleballer of the 1980s and 1990s, portrayed Wilhelm for that sequence in Billy Crystal's film of the Maris-Mantle home run chase, 61*. The line the Oriole manager gave him to start his pitching turn was a line actual Oriole manager Paul Richards did say to Wilhelm before he began his warmups on the mound: Throw him anything but a knuckleball and I'll fine you $500.

[johnboy]

as i have opined heretofore, you are uncommonly knowledgeable about music.

but, on sports, you are incoherent.

[socal_parrot]

Sad news. I forget who gave the advice on the best way to catch a knuckleball, "Wait 'til it stops rolling and pick it up".

[fnord]

please add me to your ping list ... I enjoy your baseball history articles and perspective.