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Longtime Sarasota Resident Hoyt Wilhelm Was Known for His Knuckleball
The whole idea of a knuckleball is to throw a ball that doesn't spin. It goes up there to the plate dead," Hoyt Wilhelm explained to
CBS Sunday Morning's Charles Kuralt in April 1994. The famed television journalist was exploring the history of
baseball's most mystifying pitch by speaking with its greatest purveyor. Few pitchers built their career…