This is cool - very rare film footage of 1924 World Series

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10-03-2014, 06:49 PM

Scott Garner Scott Garner is offline

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Originally Posted by packs

That was amazing. Man, I know in all the books everyone said Walter had some easy gas. Seeing him take that slow wind up and whip his arm, it's hard to believe he's throwing high 90s heat!

You can bet, with absolute certainty that WaJo had a fastball well into the 100+ MPH range. He didn't really have a great # 2 pitch and struck out 3,508 batters. He might have had one of the greatest fastballs of all time, even with that easy motion...

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