How to catch a Knuckle baller

Victor Martinez caught Tim Wakefield today and made a lot of catchers look pretty foolish. Remember the series against the yankees a few years back - when the red sox traded with San Diego to get Bard back because Wakefield was on the mound, the Yankees were in town, and Varitek could'nt catch the knuckleball? It was a great story - how he was given a police escort from the airport to the ballpark and arrived just in time for first pitch

On Thursday, martinez caught Wakefield with no problem . His solution to this age old problem? He caught with a first basemans glove. When you hear it it seems pretty damn obvious dosn't it?

I've never tried to catch a knuckleball so maybe I just don't know. Maybe this is what lots of people have always done, but then why have we heard so little of it? Has anyone else ever heard of this?