The most respected and feared pitch in baseball is definitely the fastball.
Every major league pitcher strives to perfect the fastball and every pitcher has the fastball pitch in their repertoire. Only a few can have the bragging rights to throw more than 100 miles per hour or even to have the fastest fastball ever.
In Jonathan Hock’s documentary Fastball, it explores baseball’s favorite pitch by attempting on who may have the fastest fastball in history from the perspective of the scientific community and the past/present famous baseballs players who tried to hit or to throw that pitch.
Some of the interviews include Justin Verlander, David Price, Derek Jeter, Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson and more great players trying to push their perspective on the fastball. The documentary is narrated by Kevin Costner.
Fastball will be in select theaters and on-demand this Friday, March 25. Also check out...
Every major league pitcher strives to perfect the fastball and every pitcher has the fastball pitch in their repertoire. Only a few can have the bragging rights to throw more than 100 miles per hour or even to have the fastest fastball ever.
In Jonathan Hock’s documentary Fastball, it explores baseball’s favorite pitch by attempting on who may have the fastest fastball in history from the perspective of the scientific community and the past/present famous baseballs players who tried to hit or to throw that pitch.
Some of the interviews include Justin Verlander, David Price, Derek Jeter, Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson and more great players trying to push their perspective on the fastball. The documentary is narrated by Kevin Costner.
Fastball will be in select theaters and on-demand this Friday, March 25. Also check out...
- 3/21/2016
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
There are few topics that get baseball fans more riled up than the question of who should (or should not) be in the Hall of Fame. People tend to take that shit extremely personally, as if denying your pet case for induction a plaque in Cooperstown — or giving one to an "undeserving" player ahead of him — is somehow tantamount to negating your fandom, your childhood or even your very existence as a human being.
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Farewell to the Captain: Can Anyone Replace Derek Jeter?
We've all got our top five or...
- 7/25/2014
- by Dan Epstein
- Rollingstone.com
We take baseball very seriously here in the MTV Newsroom. The staff is currently embroiled in a fantasy league, office legend Daniel "Monty" Montalto is about to embark on a pilgrimage to several Midwestern stadiums (wave hello to him, people of Cleveland) and this afternoon several of us plan to be distracted by the daytime rubber match between the Mets and the Reds. Today is a big day in baseball history, as on this day in 1904, Cy Young threw a perfect game (meaning he did not allow a single baserunner via a hit, walk or error), the first of the "modern" baseball era.
Denton True Young was born in Gilmore, Ohio on March 29, 1867. He began his professional career in Canton, Ohio in 1890 (he made $60 a month) before being wooed away by Boston in 1901 (they were officially called the Americans then, but just about everyone referred to them as the nickname...
Denton True Young was born in Gilmore, Ohio on March 29, 1867. He began his professional career in Canton, Ohio in 1890 (he made $60 a month) before being wooed away by Boston in 1901 (they were officially called the Americans then, but just about everyone referred to them as the nickname...
- 5/5/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
It's official: "Avatar" is now the biggest money-making movie of all time. James Cameron's massive, technological envelope-pushing 3-D depiction of the planet of Pandora and the struggle of the race known as the Na'vi has been helped out a bit by inflation and the high cost of an IMAX ticket, but it's still a remarkable feat. It stands on top of the mountain once topped by "Titanic" (another James Cameron epic).
When the "Titanic" phenomenon happened back in 1997, most movie industry professionals thought that no film would ever touch the film's box office record. But "Avatar" managed to eclipse it, and it did it relatively effortlessly. Records are obviously made to be broken, and though it'll probably take years (or whenever Cameron gets around to making another movie), there will be another film that will come along and take the number one place in the line. But there are...
When the "Titanic" phenomenon happened back in 1997, most movie industry professionals thought that no film would ever touch the film's box office record. But "Avatar" managed to eclipse it, and it did it relatively effortlessly. Records are obviously made to be broken, and though it'll probably take years (or whenever Cameron gets around to making another movie), there will be another film that will come along and take the number one place in the line. But there are...
- 1/26/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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