Knuckleball!


Knuckleball is a 2012 documentary film that follows the 2011 seasons of Tim Wakefield and R. A. Dickey, Major League Baseballs only knuckleball pitchers that year. It was released in theaters on September 20, 2012 and on DVD on April 2, 2013. Wakefield won his 200th game in 2011 and Dickey won the 2012 Cy Young Award.

The film sets up the 2011 season by showing how the knuckleball saved both pitchers from obscurity. Dickey moved his familytimes before landing with the New York Mets. The film presents Wakefields chase of his 200th win as a member of the 2011 Red Sox and Dickeys makeitorbreakit season with the 2011 Mets. It demonstrates the fraternal nature of knuckleball pitchers who trade tips of the trade via various meetings with the likes of Phil Niekro and Charlie Hough. Dickey won the Cy Young Award in November 2012.Without ofcritics approving, the film scored a 93 rating at Rotten Tomatoes from the critics and an 87 approval rating from the audience. The film scored a 73 at Metacritic based onreviews. According to Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times, the films release, which coincided with Dickeys Cy Young run, made a firstrate sports documentary especially sweet. The Boston Globes Ty Burr said The movies a must for baseball fans in general and Red Sox fans in particular. Even the films harshest critics such as Time Outs David Fear says Viewers who cant get enough of ESPNsfordocs will lap up this dual portrait, but continued to say that Nonfans, however, are about to find out exactly what the phrase inside baseball means. ........

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