It goes up there to the plate dead,” Hoyt ... Wilhelm’s siblings and cousins. In later years, Honeycutt got to know members of the Wilhelm family in North Carolina. He helped get a park ...

The late Hoyt Wilhelm began experimenting with a knuckleball pitch at Cornelius High. That explains the movement afoot to rename a local park for the Major League Baseball Hall of Famer.

On June 2, 1959, Orioles pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was chased from the mound by a cloud of gnats that encircled the mound at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. Wilhelm, a 36-year-old knuckleballer, hadn’t ...

In 1985, Wilhelm made the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first relief pitcher to do so. He died in Sarasota at age 80 in 2002. The baseball fields at Huntersville Athletic Park have been named Hoyt ...

SARASOTA -- James Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, a baseball Hall of Famer considered ... Burial will be in Palms Memorial Park. Memorial donations may be made to United Cerebral Palsy of Sarasota Manatee ...

In 1985, Wilhelm made the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first relief pitcher to do so. He died in Sarasota at age 80 in 2002. The baseball fields at Huntersville Athletic Park have been named Hoyt ...