1.   As a teen-ager, Mike Mussina tried emulating knuckleball pitchers and essentially invented a pitch that he still relies upon almost two decades later.

2.   A knuckleball pitcher never has, and a knuckleball pitcher never will.

3.   Clayton, who has a history of teeing off on Candiotti and other knuckleball pitchers, said it was merely a matter of being impatient.

4.   Doug is a knuckleball pitcher with the Florida Marlins who has just married Lexy.

5.   Few pitchers are ever that good, and no knuckleball pitcher ever has been that dominant for a two-month period.

6.   He is a knuckleball pitcher.

7.   Hough became a knuckleball pitcher out of necessity.

8.   Hough, a crafty knuckleball pitcher, said not once did he believe he was untouchable during the streak.

9.   It is irksome for batters to face knuckleball pitchers because they rarely oppose them and it is tough to know where the ball is going.

10.   Legs and fingernails are all that really matter to a knuckleball pitcher.