How do you throw a knuckleball with a baseball?
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1.     Grip the baseball by clenching the top of the ball with the tips of your index, middle and ring fingers just below the seams. Dig the tips of your fingers deep into the ball.\n \n2.  Place your thumb below the ball to give it support. Keep your pinkie off to the side.\n \n3.  Go into your windup. Remember to pivot and shift your body weight from the back foot forward toward home plate.\n \n4.  Throw the ball toward home, but don't snap your wrist - keep it stable, eliminating as much spin as possible.\n \n5.  Follow through. Extend all fingers toward home plate as you release the pitch. Your feet should be parallel at the end of the pitch, and your throwing arm should come across the front of your body.\n \n \nTips:\nAn effective knuckleball moves in two or three different directions in flight.\n \nTry a variation on the knuckleball grip by using just the index and middle fingers on the top of the ball. The ring finger joins the pinkie off to the side.\n \nThe slower the pitch, the more time the ball has to weave toward home plate.
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1.   Hide the ball in your glove.  \n  \n2.   Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball.  \n  \n3.   Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. (Image 1)  \n  \n4.   Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. (Image 2)  \n  \n5.   Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. (Image 3)  \n  \n6.   Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. (Image 4)  \n  \n7.   Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. (Image 5)  \n  \n8.   Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up.  \n  \n9.   Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.
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a real easy way to alter a pitch is to remove some (or most) of your fingers from the ball when you throw it. Your arm speed will make it look like a fastball but because the ball is in your palm (rather than being gripped tightly by your fingers), it will go slowly.
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The first thing to do is already know where you are going to throw it. Be aware of where the base runners are and have it set in your mind what you need to do if the ball comes to you. Usually you are going to throw it to your cut-off man. Depending on where you play, it will be the shortstop or 2nd baseman. Unless you are very shallow in the outfield or have a rocket arm, this is where you will throw.\n    Now, as far as how to throw I'm going to asume that you have caught the ball cleanly. Keep your ballance, get your leggs under neath you. With your weight on your right leg, step towards where you are throwing, at the same time throw the ball with a over hand motion.\n    YOur whole body throws the ball, not just your arm. You  are pushing with your back leg, twisting your stomach, chest and shoulders, and kind of snaping your arm like a whip in a over and downward motion. If you throw overhanded properly, you will put back-spin on the ball and get a little bit of rise on the ball and get more distance.\n    The key to it all is to do everything in one fluid motion. Hope i helped, Good luck
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Changeup and Curveball are the two best.\nIf you can get a slider, you'll be in good position too.\n\nHere's how you throw a curveball.\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_1831_throw-curveball-baseball.html
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Practice! But also try light weight wrist weights while parcticing. Because of the added weight they make you throw harder. When you take them off, your pitches are harder and faster.
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The best website to visit is www.ehow.com and search for baseball pitching. It has awesome tips. Here is an example of how to throw a fastball: \n1.Choose one of the following handgrips for a combination of comfortable release and maximum control.  \n  \n2.   Grip the ball perpendicular to the seams, at their widest point, with your middle and index fingers spread 1/2 inch apart. Your thumb lies perpendicular to the seams on the underside of the ball. With this grip, expect the pitch to rise as it makes its way to the catcher.  \n  \n3.   Alternatively, grip the ball with your middle and index fingers at the point where the seams are closest to each other. Your fingers should lie perpendicular to the seams. Expect the pitch to sink.  \n  \n4.   Hide the ball in your glove.  \n  \n5.   Wind up, and use this windup to gain power. Use the same motion you use with other pitches so that the batter has trouble predicting a fastball.  \n  \n6.   Release the ball from your fingertips to maintain control and gain spin.  \n  \n7.   Continue the motion of your arm after releasing the pitch, and follow through with your body. Allow your natural momentum to carry your body forward.  \n  \n  \n  Tips:  \n For increased backward rotation of the pitch, snap your wrist slightly as you release the ball - this sacrifices some speed but makes the pitch harder to hit.  \n  \n As your control improves, adjust your grip to maximize speed without losing control.  \n  \n  \n  Warnings:  \n Gripping the ball across the seams may cause blisters.
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In general, a lefty would use a glove that goes on his right hand.  The reason is that you want your stronger arm (the left) available for throwing, which requires more strength than catching.
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Best Answer - Chosen By Voters\n\n1. Hide the ball in your glove. \n\n2. Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball. \n\n3. Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. (Image 1) \n\n4. Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. (Image 2) \n\n5. Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. (Image 3) \n\n6. Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. (Image 4) \n\n7. Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. (Image 5) \n\n8. Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up. \n\n9. Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.
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You take your hands and curl them a little bit, like cat claws\n\nGet under the ball and face the direction you want to hit the ball at and the player you want to set it to\n\nKeep looking up at the ball, raise your curled hands over the front of your head and you're gonna swiftly extend your hands and make contact under the ball with your fingertips(that's why you have your hands curled)  when the ball comes down just about above your head. \n\nI think also bend at the knees and then extend your legs when you extend your arms to hit the ball\n\nNO PALMS WHEN SETTING A BALL!
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There are two ways.\n\n1. This is the most likely way.  On a day with no wind, throw the ball straight up.  This is quite unlikely and requires a lot of skills.\n\n2. This one is impossible.  Throw the ball so hard that it goes around the Earth once before coming down.  Humans just don't have the power to do this.
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ok, first get a decent stance, when you swing bring your knob to the ball and never just swing your barrel, when you swing never roll your wrists and hit the ball on a level swing.always step towards the pitcher and keep your eye on the ball and check where the pitcher releases, that tels you if its high or low. good luck.
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As a coach I teach my kids to:\n1. grip the ball across all four laces.  \n2. Plant your throwing foot, step towards your target with your glove hand.\n3. Reach back with your throwing hand(stretching your arm all the way out) Keep your throwing elbow up\n4. Pull your body through with your glove hand, throwing the ball with your arm in an overhand motion(try not to drop down sidearm)\n5. Follow through, snapping your wrist at the end to give the ball a bit of backspin so that it will stay in the air a bit longer.\n\nRelease point will have to be adjusted according to who you are playing with(their height) \n\nPractice, practice, practice and have fun!...use a tennis ball(or a spongey baseball) and a brick wall.\n\nGood Luck!!
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if you throw lefty, the only 3 positions you could play are first base, outfield, and pitcher. if you're any other position, it's really hard to play. also, being left handed does not make you any good at baseball. you gotta work at it. you're not just born good.
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here is an oldie but a goodie, get an old tire hang from a tree. paint a small circle on it. hit the circle till you remove the paint.  repaint the circle and do it again. work on blocking the ball, have someone thow balls in the dirt to your left and right just outside the plate. not too far away from you keep your head down watch the ball hit your body or glove.  when you work on throwing down to second do not take three steps to the base. stand up and throw. one step. start slowly catch the ball. stand and throw. then keep going faster.  watch the pros on how they frame the ball. frame it where you catch it.  DO NOT MOVE YOUR GLOVE DURING THE FRAMING!!!!  I am also an umpire and we hate that
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It's not really a trick question, if the answer is just "throw it straight up," but I can tell you from experience that throwing a ball straight up as hard as you can does NOT get as much velocity as throwing it semi-horizontally; it's just too awkward of a motion, you can't quite get the same force behind it, since you can't use your body as effectively.\n\nA way that you CAN throw a ball as fast as you're capable of, and still catch it, is to throw it against a hard surface that it will bounce off of, so that it comes back to you.  Works great with tennis balls, not so well with baseballs, though they do bounce some...
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Practice throwing shorter distances first and make sure you're throwing it straight.  If you do it correctly, it usually has an "S" flight trajectory.  If you're right handed, it starts of to the right and then comes back left.  Make sure you're throwing straight and then start throwing harder and harder.  Once you can stand there and throw it pretty hard (and straight), then start getting a one step start and use your body along w/ your arm.  Once you master that, Get a running start and put your body into it.  The main thing is making sure that you throw it straight.  You're maximum distance will come on a straight throw.