Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers' quipping radio broadcaster, makes his brief and lackluster career as a major league catcher the subject of much of his humor. About catching the knuckleball, Uecker famously said, "I always thought the knuckleball was the easiest pitch to catch." Of course, there is an even better way to catch a knuckleball, and the author's purpose here is to suggest that the qualities that define the best catchers of knuckleballers--mental and physical flexibility, a kind of clever patience, and perseverance--are the same qualities that define the ideal contemporary independent school admission director. The author will use the experiences of the admission director at the school he heads, but he would argue that the metaphor, in varying degrees, is applicable in all contemporary independent school markets. Since 2008, the yearly trends in the independent school admission environment have been knuckleballs, and necessarily, the most successful admission directors have much the same skill set as a knuckleball catcher. He or she is consummately well-prepared but wary of over-anticipating, imaginative enough to form a shifting definition of the new market realities but ready to abandon definitions that no longer have validity, flexible enough to arrange time and energy to follow the trends as they develop, and humble enough to accept bad guesses or to work harder to retrieve an inquiry that looked like it was getting away.