I've heard Bob Feller threw 107 and I've heard Nolan Ryan's name thrown out there too as the fastest but don't know how fast...
2006-07-25 04:54:21 · 11 answers · asked by swig69420 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
109? Not acccording to Baseball Almanac.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles...
4 Pitchers tied at 102 in a Major League game, and career minor leaguer Steve Dalkowski as probably the fastest of all time.
2006-07-25 05:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by TX-ftball 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fastest Pitch By Nolan Ryan
2016-10-17 04:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JR Richards threw 109 mph in 1980 for the Houston Astros.
2006-07-25 05:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by K-Deeznuts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1985- Sidd Finch: 168 mph
Sidd Finch was an aspiring monk who spent much of his orphaned youth in England, went to Harvard, dropped out after one semester and learned to pitch in the mountains of Tibet, flinging rocks and meditating. He was discovered by a Mets minor league manager who watched in awe as the gawky string bean would wind up - he looked like Goofy in the old Disney cartoons - and throw pitches so fast and accurate that they vaporized soda bottles standing 60 feet away. The radar guns read an unfathomable 168; Nolan Ryan's heater was just a changeup compared with this kid's.
2006-07-25 06:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by get_unlost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never saw Feller but I have seen many of the modern day fireballers and Nolan Ryan was the fastest, when he busted them inside they hit the dirt as fast as they could.
2006-07-25 05:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Guinness book still lists Nolan Ryan with the fastest at 100.9 mph.
Joel Zumaya hit 103 this season, which equals the fastest recorded by anything approaching official recorded times:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/fastest-pitcher-in-baseball.shtml
2006-07-25 05:02:55 · answer #6 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J.R Richards: Houston Astros 1980: 109 MPH
2006-07-25 04:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by Big Boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nolan Ryan:109 MPH
Note:Why? He couldn't beat the Mets!
2006-07-25 05:51:30 · answer #8 · answered by metsfan988 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was in fact JR Richards for the Houston Astros in 1980 .
cheers !
2006-07-25 05:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by BIGG AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That dumbass above me needs to learn how to read the whole article if you read farther down it says the story is fiction and and april fools joke lol dumbass
2006-07-25 09:12:10 · answer #10 · answered by Locknet Monda! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋