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Originally Posted by jingram058
Wait, hold the presses...Peter, weren't you the one leading the argument that, back in the Mathewson - Johnson era, pitchers were throwing the equivalent of peewee baseball today? 75 mph isn't going to make any sound at all. And if that's the case, how then did "The Big Train" get that nickname?
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I never said 75. I doubt it was consistently in the 90s either. No reason to think baseball is the exception to the rule that human performance has greatly improved over the last 100 years. And there is no doubt that in the context of his day, which is what counts, he was very fast.
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Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 02-25-2024 at 03:19 PM.
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