Charlie Hough

Charlie Hough is exactly my kind of baseball story. Born in Honolulu in 1948, he built a Major League career out of one maddening, beautiful pitch: the knuckleball. From 1970 to 1994 he floated that fluttering ball past hitters for the Dodgers, Rangers, White Sox and Marlins, pitching into his mid-forties while flame-throwers half his age burned out. I love that longevity, because it proves craft and guile can outlast raw velocity. Hough was never a magazine cover star, but as a durable artisan who turned an oddball weapon into a quarter-century career, he remains one of the game's most quietly admirable survivors.

Name (English)

Charlie Hough

Name (Japanese)

チャーリー・ハフ

Reading

ちゃーりー・はふ

Born

January 5, 1948 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Origin

Honolulu, United States

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Hialeah High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Hough
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960863

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.