There are certainly some good stories about knuckleballers in this book, but it is incredibly poorly organized, repetitive, and cliche-ridden. Freedman just isn't a very good writer, but his goodwill and willingness to listen at least let him record what these guys have to say. It's a bit dated by now, and nearly all of the prospective young knuckleball pitchers he mentions, and whom Phil Niekro and others were tutoring, never amounted to anything. This is really for the baseball fanatic only. ( )