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.

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 ...

Friends of Hoyt Park, a Saginaw community group that has spent the summer sprucing up the baseball fields in the park, has collected about $20,000 in contributions so far, an official said.

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 ...

Knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm ... baseball," Peggy Wilhelm told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Saturday. The White Sox held a moment of silence for Wilhelm at Comiskey Park before Saturday night's ...

I want to personally thank the Friends of Hoyt Park committee for all they did to revitalize Hoyt Park. I was on the receiving end, as I ran the league and assigned the umpires this past year for ...

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 ...

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 ...