knuckleball in English
noun
1
a slow pitch that has virtually no spin and moves erratically, typically made by releasing the ball from between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the index and middle finger.
He had pitched in high school and occasionally had thrown a knuckleball .
noun
knuckler
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1. Man, what a knuckleball that fellow has.
2. Bouton had thrown a number of pitches in the minor leagues, including the knuckleball, but it was a conversation with Johnny Sain in 1961 that turned him into more of a traditional fastball-curveball pitcher