100 Stories by Adam Nathan

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Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 24)

Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 24)

A slow clap, a railroad spike, an AM radio, a mushroom cloud, scrap metal, a fib and a beep-beep. Everyone's at the field now.

Adam Nathan
Apr 27, 2025
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CHAPTER 24

The Boil

2003.

June 3.

4:59 PM.

The Bronx.

Pitching mound.

Reginald Perry, the Yankee rookie from the Wilkes-Barre AAA RailRiders, had just thrown the Greatest Pitch in the History of Baseball.

Funny the things you don’t remember even at the center of them. The stadium erupted after that pitch. Scoreboar…

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