Check out this fascinating tidbit from a column by Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports
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The gyroball is baseball's version of alien life. No one knows if they've seen it. No one knows what it looks like. No one knows much about it. Except there's a small pocket of American fans who graze the Internet champing to see Matsuzaka, because they're all convinced that he throws a gyroball and they're all convinced it will revolutionize the sport.
There hasn't been a new pitch in baseball since the split-finger fastball, and it did everything from making Bruce Sutter a Hall of Famer to prolonging Roger Clemens' career by 10 years. Baseball evolves so slowly, unearthing a new pitch is like finding an Easter egg that happens to be filled with gold.
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The full article can been seen at
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns. Check it out. It's a great read.
Has anyone ever had the opportunity seen this mythical gyroball? Do you believe it actually exists?