Knuckleball!

Name: Knuckleball!
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 21, 2012
Rating: 73

2012

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FilmBuff | Release Date: September 21, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The film follows the Major League’s only knuckleballers in 2011, Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey, as they pursue a mercurial art form in a world that values speed, accuracy, and numerical accountability. (FilmBuff)

Director: Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

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Neil Genzlinger

Sep 20, 2012

Maybe that's romanticizing things, but baseball wouldn't be half as beautiful without its mythology. Read full review

Ty Burr

Sep 19, 2012

The movie's a must for baseball fans in general and Red Sox fans in particular - if nothing else, it will help remove the battery-acid taste of the season now stumbling to a close. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Sep 20, 2012

A wild and unexpected film. Read full review

Noel Murray

Sep 19, 2012

Some of Knuckleball!'s best scenes show Dickey and Wakefield hanging out with Hough and Phil Niekro (the latter the rare knuckleballer who threw the pitch his whole career rather than turning to it out of desperation), talking about the mechanics and the mojo of the knuckler. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Sep 20, 2012

Knuckleball! looks and feels like a standard ESPN documentary, slickly packaged and a little bloodless, and Stern and Sundberg lean a little heavily on music to goose up the excitement. Read full review

Bill Weber

Sep 18, 2012

This chronicle of two athletes throwing baseball's funkiest, least respected pitch is given depth by their stranger-than-fiction underdog status and camaraderie with mentors who've had the same struggles. Read full review

David Fear

Sep 18, 2012

Viewers who can't get enough of ESPN's "30 for 30" docs will lap up this dual portrait. Read full review

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adz365

Apr 6, 2013

As a Brit, look forward to my holidays in America so can watch baseball either live or on TV. Its my favourite of the big 4 sports although I have no affiliation to a team or know more than a handful of players I still enjoy it as a sport. I loved Moneyball and I have to say that I wouldAs a Brit, look forward to my holidays in America so can watch baseball either live or on TV. Its my favourite of the big 4 sports although I have no affiliation to a team or know more than a handful of players I still enjoy it as a sport. I loved Moneyball and I have to say that I would recommend Knuckleball! as much to any sports fan. It covers all the areas it needed to for a someone like me, the technicalities of the pitch, the myths, the legends and has a really nice stories running through the whole film.… Expand

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