Indians Legend Bob Feller Dead at 92

[Guest Edgy DC]

No.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's just the first comment under the video, and an interesting speculative comment on the sophistication of equipment back then used to measure ballistics, as well as the everyday dangers of professional stuff that we didn't fully appreciate.

Walter Johnson was measured with ballistic equpment too, but it didn't quite work, because the way it was aligned didn't quite work with his sidearmed motion. They told him he had to bring it up higher and he said, well, this is my slot, but he went off for a few minutes to work on an a three-quarters motion and came back. I think he came in around 98. I have to double-check.

The thing I realized reading High Heat is that these guys are always kind of curious about how fast they are and how fast they can be. There's a vanity to all the guys in the century club, but also an appreciation of and respect for the franternity. I spoke with the I spoke with the author and he said that Tim Lincecum is as goofy a guy as he seems to be on the field, knows very little about baseball history, but knows who the fastest pitchers were.