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Deezer » wrote:

24 Jan 1970, 1:55 pm

GHETTOBLASTER » 14 Jun 2022, 12:11 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Jun 2022, 12:11 pm

At close to 100 mph plus you can smell the burned leather when you foul tip it.
The first spinning tire pitching machines I knew of came out my Senior year of HS. 
If both tires were set to the same exact speed it would throw a 100 mph knuckleball....  
We had it throwing BP against the 2 x 10 lumber back stop and it was splitting the wood...with one tire throwing a wee bit faster than the other it threw 100 mph Sliders.
We set it up to throw "pop ups" for infield practice  that were basically uncatchable..the ball would get up in the wind currents and drift who knows where.
I played with 4 guys who got drafted out of HS, then sent to Class A.
They hit .350 to .400 in HS but had trouble hitting above .200 at Class A
You really need to be a .500 plus hitter in HS to have any chance of making it IMHO.

You ever see that movie Knuckleball?

Not being from a baseball environment, I found that to be an interesting slice of the sport.
Is a human-powered 100mph knuckleball even possible? Doesn't seem like it.
In the 80's was about all I saw...