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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Old time fastball in Detroit

An anonymous reader passes on this story about a fastball star in Detroit in the 70's.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

this is pretty funny, he used to throw over a hundred mph! Have another pint!

Interesting that they used to pitch from 37 feet though, there would be more no hitters than there would be games with hits!

Joe McCleary

10:32 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The pitching rubber has gradually been pushed back from 37 feet to 46 1/4 feet"

Yikes! I can't imagine trying to hit from 37 feet today.

7:58 am  

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