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Originally Posted by NIump50
If a pitch is released at 5' above home plate with an initial trajectory that plots out to 3' above home plate, after drag and gravity and all that other good stuff, at what height will a 100 mph fastball be when it crosses the plate? How about a 90 and 85mph ball?
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Can you handle the truth?
Which numbers do you want to see?
The argument that a RISING fastball cannot be thrown overhand is definitely TRUE at all speeds below 70 mph. 88 mph was a special number. I never argued that this rising fastball concept wasn't TRUE between 70 and 90 mph as well. I also did the math work and came up with some very interesting numbers, 93 mph, 96 mph and 98 mph. Somehow this work disappeared when the original AUTHOR HIT the DELETE thread BUTTON.
To be sure that my calculations were CORRECT, I rounded these figures to an even 100 mph. I located a page of MLB pitchers who were all clocked at throwing baseballs at over a 100 mph. I even noticed that many pitchers were not on the table because someone never officialy clocked them on RADAR. I also noted that NOLAN RYAN's speed was clocked just above 101 mph, even though he was reported to have thrown a 105 mph baseball in his time in the minors. There was also a minor leaguer who could chunk the ball from home plate over the center field wall that didn't make the list.
But the memories of my missing DATA, my missing numbered proofs, my missing initial attempts at introducing/explaining RISE are now GONE from the record. So sad! Barry Bonds must be nervous about adding that asterick.