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    Joe Niekro’s Knuckleball Lives On

    I just got done watching E60 on ESPN, not a show I typically tune into, but tonight’s story had a special meaning.  Tonight, featured a story on Dad and how his knuckleball teaching has carried on through the years, making Chelsea Baker one of the best little league pitchers in the country.  Chelsea, now 13, […]

    Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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    NOW IS THE TIME…RETIRE #36

    1980: Astros take Playoff with Dodgers, 7-1 By Bill McCurdy  Texas Baseball Hall of Fame Induction, 2005: Artist Opie Otterstad, Presenter Greg Lucas, Inductee Joe Niekro.  The date was October 6, 1980. By tailspinning into a three game sweep loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on the West Coast, the Houston Astros found themselves facing the […]

    Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010
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    It’s Time to Retire Joe Niekro’s Astros #36

    http://bill37mccurdy.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/its-time-to-retire-joe-niekros-astros-36/#comment-1016   Joe Niekro Has Been the Astros Franchise Wins Leader for 25 Years! His Total MLB WIns Exceed Those of 16 Great Starting Pitchers in the HOF at Cooperstown.  Sometime in the next couple of weeks, Roy Oswalt may tie and surpass Joe Niekro as the all time leader in pitching wins for the […]

    Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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    Hotstove.com relives the Niekro Magic

    Today I spent almost an hour speaking with Tom Reese and Paul Rubillo of Hotstove.com, a radio show broadcast from New Jersey.  They brought such joy to me as we relived some of Dad’s greatest playing moments and my childhood as the daughter of one of the greatest Knuckleball pitchers in history.  What a pleasure […]

    Posted on Friday, March 5, 2010
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    The Knuckle Ball: It’s Now A Pitch for Life Over Sudden Death

    IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING Written by: Natalie Niekro at age 7 Spring Training is here and baseball is starting, which means that my Dad and I will be parting. His baseball career is his dream-come-true But the time we’re apart makes me so sad and blue. Though Winter’s a memory and flowers now bloom, I […]

    Posted on Friday, July 3, 2009
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