Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Hoyt Wilhelm, Eddie Cicotte, List of knuckleball pitchers, Tim Wakefield, Jim Bouton, Phil Niekro, R. A. Dickey, Joe Niekro, Eddie Rommel, Eri Yoshida, Ted Lyons, Gene Bearden, Wilbur Wood, Lou Sleater, Bobby Shantz, Bob Purkey, Charlie Haeger, Charlie Hough, Nap Rucker, Charlie Zink, Joe Sullivan, Eddie Fisher, Danny Boone, Alex Carrasquel, Tom Candiotti, Charlie Hudson, Lance Niekro, Paul LaPalme, Jesse Haines, Al Papai, Jared Fernandez, Dutch Leonard, Larry French, Kirt Ojala, Steve Sparks, Wally Burnette, Johnny Niggeling, Dennis Springer, Rich Sauveur, Jim Davis, Mickey Haefner, Wes Flowers, Lew Moren, Roger Wolff. Excerpt: Knuckleball pitchers are those professional baseball players who have relied on the knuckleball as their primary pitch or who made it to professional baseball based on their ability to throw a knuckleball. The invention of the knuckler has never been definitively identified, though there are a number of pitchers from the early 20th century who have been credited with its creation. Baseball statistician / historian Rob Neyer lists four different individuals in an article he wrote in the 2004 book The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers as potentially deserving credit, any of whom may have originated the pitch in either the 1907 or 1908 seasons. Nap Rucker of the Brooklyn Dodgers came up to the majors in 1907, initially throwing hard stuff but later switching to the knuckleball. A 1908 article credited Lew Moren as the inventor of the pitch. Ed Cicotte earned a full-time spot with the Detroit Tigers in 1908, earning the nickname "Knuckles" for his signature pitch. Picture of Ed Summers showed him gripping what he called a "dry spitter" using a variation of the knuckleball grip using the knuckles of his index and middle fingers. Unlike almost every other pitch in baseball, the knuckleball's erratic...