| Boston brought knuckleballer Steven Wright up from Pawtucket and had spare outfielder Corey Brown designated for assignment. |
| The 37-year-old knuckleballer followed Johan Santana's no-hitter with a dazzling performance of his own. |
| Sean Flaherty is now a senior in high school, and possibly the only full-fledged knuckleballer pitching for any secondary school, anywhere. |
| Barry Meister, Wakefield's agent, also represents Steve Sparks, the other knuckleballer currently pitching in the majors. |
| Still, it was an amazing season for the game's greatest knuckleballer. |
| He's been numbing, no less, and watching him in action, or sort of — he's a knuckleballer — you feel some of the game's lost silences falling around you. |
