Subj : Phil Neikro
To   : Joe Siegler
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Sat Dec 01 2001 11:38 am

->> Cool thing about the knuckler is that when it worked for me,
->> man, did it work. You could swear the ball actually stopped
->> and dropped in front of its victim, and I did tend to get
->> cursed out by the catcher when I threw a good one. :-)
 JS> Too bad there weren't camcorders in wide use back then.

Oh, man, I'd have my parents burn the tapes.  I wasn't a very good sport, and 
took some cues from a certain Ty Cobb regarding ownership of base paths (I was 
never, ever thrown out stealing, and even took home plate once.).

 JS> Would make for some interesting video now.  I just picture
 JS> you throwing this pitch, having it drop, and going "DIE!"

That's probably THE damnedest thing I ever saw on the Little League fields.

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