ATLANTA (AP) — Phil Niekro threw a pitch that baffled hitters and catchers. Heck, he didn’t even know where it was going most of the time. But the knuckleball carried Niekro to more than 300 wins, ...

Phil Niekro, a baseball Hall of Famer and famous knuckleballer, passed away on Saturday night. He was 81 years old. Few players in baseball history had Niekro’s incredible longevity. The 1997 ...

Phil Niekro, the only knuckleball pitcher to win 300 Major League Baseball games, died in his sleep Saturday night after a long battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced. He was 81. Niekro ...

Fried threw eight shutout innings in a 4–0 win over the Cleveland Guardians at Yankee Stadium, lowering his ERA to 1.78 through his first 13 starts this season. It’s the best opening stretch by a ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Phil Niekro was a Baseball Player for the Major League Baseball with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Senate Committee. A hearing was held ...

More than anybody else, Dan Duquette was responsible for bringing Tim Wakefield to the Red Sox. In April of 1995, when Duquette was in his first full season as the team’s general manager, the club ...

ATLANTA – Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, has died after ...

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