true or false
2006-10-27 06:44:30 · 27 answers · asked by Ralphy 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Definitively FALSE. No one can throw a baseball 150 MPH. Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya is one of the fastest of all time and his fastball has been clocked at 103 this season.
2006-10-27 06:52:01 · answer #1 · answered by Mike Oxmahl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fastest recorded pitch was by Zumaya at 104.0 Although you read about speeds over one hundred MPH, speed guns today are inaccurate, some will read a pitch at 97 and some will read it at 102. They dont want to put a single record down on baseball almanac because it was taken will one speed gun. When Nolan Ryan pitched this it was taken with more then one speed gun. Fans, researchers, historians and even the players argue all the time about who was the fastest pitcher of all-time. The most widely quoted response is Nolan Ryan, whose fastball was "officially" clocked by the Guinness Book of World Records at 100.9 miles per hour in a game played on August 20, 1974 versus the Chicago White Sox. A record that's still included in the book.
2016-05-22 01:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False, I've been watching baseball for years, and I caught the tail end of Ryan's career, he was a great pitcher but I've never heard of anyone getting over 103-105 miles per hour. Of course there is no way to know if anyone threw that fast before we had radar guns.
2006-10-27 07:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by bkweeks2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False - and let me share something else whith the readers here....he appeared at the Little Leauge world seris when my son was there. He played for the European sector. We were Americans though.. military stationed at Ramstein. Anyway, when the boys asked or Nolan's autograph, he declined, saing he didn't want to devaluate the cost of his signature. Believe that?
There kids were there, playing their hearts out. An icon of the game showes up and declines to give his autograph to the boys that love and play America's past-time. The heck with him. He should have gone home and left the announcing to someone more energized by the young players. He was an example of someone in it for the money. Go away already!
2006-10-28 16:09:44 · answer #4 · answered by stretch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False
2006-10-27 06:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by zskip62 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, 150 mph is an exaggeration. At his best in his prime, Ryan was clocked between 101 to 102 mph. There is however discretions on which type of radar gun was used for the clocking.
2006-10-27 08:15:15 · answer #6 · answered by dragonquad 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False - Ryan was one of the best, but not they best. He had just a longer career then most. And he might have thrown at 105 mph not 150 mph
2006-10-27 06:52:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. He threw over 100 mph but no more than 110 mph.
2006-10-27 08:13:52 · answer #8 · answered by Jim G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False - the faster measured pitch he ever threw was around 100 mph.
2006-10-27 10:33:16 · answer #9 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False, he threw pitches over 100 but 150 seems too exaggerated.
2006-10-27 06:51:38 · answer #10 · answered by Holla 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋