SAN DIEGO — Three years ago, inside an apartment in Fort Wayne, Ind., Matt Waldron opened his laptop for a crash course in an endangered art. Tim Wakefield, the most prominent knuckleballer of his ...

THANK YOU SIR. SO THIS IS NEW ON FIVE TONIGHT. AND WE’VE SHOWN YOU A LOT OF INCREDIBLE MOMENTS OF FENWAY PARK TODAY. BUT THIS IS ANOTHER PRIVATE BEHIND THE SCENES MOMENT. IT WAS OFF THE FIELD. IT WAS ...

OYAMA, Japan >> Eri Yoshida sat in the dugout of an all-dirt baseball field in rural Japan, surrounded by rice paddies, narrow roads, and traditional Japanese houses. The scene recalled instantly the ...

The knuckleball has long been one of baseball’s most esteemed and bizarre traditions. Now it is nearing extinction. This year, major league pitchers have thrown only 15 knuckleballs. Those have come ...