It's the principle of the knuckleball in baseball: if you can throw a baseball without rotating it, the chaotic airflow around the curving seam will make it move unpredictably.

I tried to do almost everything, except throw a baseball, left-handed: opening a door, turning on the radioeverything.

A friend taught him to throw a baseball, and they played catch almost every day, which turned out to be the key to his future.

The other day we had him try to throw a baseball pass as a press breaker.

He reportedly could throw a baseball 135 yards, farther than anyone else who played the game in his era.