SINGAPORE - Scientists study the unpredictable trajectory of the knuckleball. Baseball pitchers master it. David James had to confront it from 10 yards during shooting sessions at Liverpool in the 1990s.
"You didn't mean it," James would say to Robbie Fowler. "You hit the ball wrong."
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