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Major League Baseball career statistics are from Baseball-Reference.com. Eddie Cicotte is credited as the inventor of the knuckleball. Hoyt Wilhelm won 124 games in relief, the major league record, and was the first pitcher to reach 200 saves and the first to appear in 1,000 games. R. A. Dickey reinvented his career by developing a knuckleball.
Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり, Yoshida Eri, born January 17, 1992) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Japan Islanders of the Empire Professional Baseball League. She plays as a sidearm knuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team. [1]
From 1976 to 1990, he pitched 15 seasons for the San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros, earning two All-Star appearances as well as the 1981 NL Comeback Player of the Year award. He gained notoriety with his 1988 remarks disparaging umpire Pam Postema , the National Organization for Women , and gay people.
Pitching Ninja tweeted video of an apparent knuckleball that he threw during his scoreless inning for the Reds in 2018. That was his first big-league pitching appearance, and his only one that season.
Niekro is generally regarded as the greatest knuckleball pitcher of all time. [2] [3] [4] During his career, Niekro was selected to five All-Star teams, led the National League in victories twice (in 1974 and 1979), led the major leagues in earned run average once (in 1967), and won the National League Gold Glove Award five times.
He left Texas as the franchise leader in wins (139), strikeouts (1,452), innings pitched (2,308), complete games (98), and losses (123), which all still stand as club records as of 2025. He was famous for his "dancing knuckleball" pitch that he threw around 80% of the time. Hough complemented his knuckleball with a fastball and slider. Hough ...
His best year for Cleveland was 1988, when he went 14–8 with a 3.28 ERA and 137 strikeouts. Candiotti became known for his use of the knuckleball . According to former Texas Rangers pitching coach Tom House , Candiotti was only the 20th pitcher in major-league history to throw the knuckleball on a full-time basis.
The top 25 highest scorers in NCAA Division I women's basketball history are listed below. While the NCAA's current three-division format has been in place since the 1973–74 season, [ 2 ] it did not sponsor women's sports until the 1981–82 school year; before that time, women's college sports were governed by the Association of ...