{"id":6055,"date":"2013-03-04T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2013-03-04T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T18:15:37","slug":"r-a-dickeys-knuckleball-pov-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=6055","title":{"rendered":"R.A. Dickey&#8217;s knuckleball POV style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6057\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DickeyRA-wiki-flickr-dbking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6057\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6057\" title=\"DickeyRA wiki flickr dbking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DickeyRA-wiki-flickr-dbking-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.A. Dickey&#39;s knuckleball illustrated as best as I&#39;ve seen it. Photo via wiki\/flickr user dbking<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From <strong>Dirk Hayhurst<\/strong>&#8216;s blog (whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=dirk+hayhurst&amp;sprefix=dirk+hayhur%2Caps%2C211\">books you should absolutely order<\/a>; they&#8217;re good reading), here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/dirkhayhurst.com\/2013\/03\/more-dickey-knuckleballs\/\">1:35 minute video<\/a> of <strong>R.A. Dickey<\/strong>&#8216;s knuckleball being shot from directly over the shoulder of his bullpen catcher.<\/p>\n<p>Serious question; how do you possibly hit this? \u00a0He throws it in excess of 80mph and it moves this violently? \u00a0Amazing. \u00a0Its no wonder he won the Cy Young last year, and I can&#8217;t see him being appreciably different in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dirk Hayhurst&#8216;s blog (whose books you should absolutely order; they&#8217;re good reading), here&#8217;s a 1:35 minute video of R.A. Dickey&#8216;s knuckleball being shot from directly over the shoulder of his bullpen catcher. Serious question; how do you possibly hit this? \u00a0He throws it in excess of 80mph and it moves this violently? \u00a0Amazing. \u00a0Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1560,781],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-dirk-hayhurst","tag-ra-dickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}