Tim Wakefield, Movie Star: An Interview with the Directors of Knuckleball! (Surviving Grady)
In Knuckleball!, directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg follow Wake through his last season in the game, juxtaposing it with Mets up-and-comer RA Dickey, who will be MLB’s sole knuckleballer this season.
Of course I’ll have to see it. I’m especially intrigued by the catcher’s- and hitter’s-eye view of a knuckleball seen in super slow motion:
We used a Phantom and we had this contraption … that involved an enormous piece of safety glass and allowed us to film these pitchers throwing straight at the camera lens. It was really remarkable because you get to track the pitcher’s movements every step of the way until the moment of release and that ball floats.