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Sonnanstine working on knuckleball, comeback

CLEVELAND -- Andy Sonnanstine has been seduced by the lure of the dancing medicine ball, and finding the magic of how to throw a knuckleball could punch his ticket back to the Major Leagues.

The former Rays hurler has been out of the Major Leagues since his final season with the Rays in 2011. Since then, he has sharpened his golf game to low single digits, and he has graduated from college. Yet baseball, and the idea of competing again, managed to crawl back into his consciousness this spring.

Sonnanstine, 33, took note when former Rays slugger Dan Johnson announced he planned to try and make a comeback as a knuckleball pitcher, even though he had never pitched in the Major Leagues.