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Old 06-17-2016, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities View Post
Out of curiosity, where did this into come from? I find it hard to believe that good high school pitchers are throwing harder than WaJo did.
Although a lack of precision instruments prevented accurate measurement of his fastball, in 1917, a Bridgeport, Connecticut munitions laboratory recorded Johnson's fastball at 134 feet per second, which is equal to 91.36 miles per hour (147.03 km/h),
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