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Knuckleball!
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This was a truly
wonderful documentary from the great minds of Ricki Stern and Annie
Sundberg (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work). I had the opportunity to see
this at the Tribeca Film Festival and I could not have been more
pleased with the results. It does not matter if you are a fan of
baseball or n...read
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Would
have been a great one hour ESPN "30 For 30" show. Unfortunately, lots
of padding got this to a 1.5 hour film that lost all of its momentum.
If they really were determined to make this a 90 minute film, they
could have used the time to throw in some physics analysis or to have
more intervie...read
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Those
are comments from the NetFlix "Knuckleball!" review. I agree
with
both, although milking an extra 20 minutes or so was no problem
for me. Rather, like
a good book, I was happy to have more pages at the end. And it
really
doesn't matter whether you're baseball fan any more than not being a
concert pianist lessens the impact of the wonderful Note
By Note - The Making Of The Steinway. I've been great friends
with Tim Wakefield—by proxy. Guys just like him, like Bill
Killoran.
By
the by. and
I believe I mentioned this in the wayback, the first Oriole game I saw
after the family moved to MD was knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter
against the Yankees. My friend Andy DeOrge's dad took us, and we
sat
in the first row behind the Yankee dugout at Memorial Stadium.
Micky,
Yogi, the whole lot. What a freaking thrill. Gus Triandos
hit a solo
homerun for the only score. Total sensory overload.
Nevertheless, I
would remain a White Sox fan for another 2-3 years.
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