Nolan Ryan became the first pitcher radar-clocked in a major league game at 100.8 mph on September 7, 1974. He later finished with 5,714 strikeouts and seven no-hitters, both MLB records, plus 324 wins. The velocity was historically measurable.
Somehow the career that followed made the fastball feel like only the beginning of the story. That 1974 reading also came from equipment measuring the ball much closer to the plate than today's guns do, so I think a modern radar would have put Ryan comfortably above that number.
Honus Wagner at 59 years old, talking on camera and still taking batting-practice swings.
Most people know Wagner through one famous baseball card, old photographs and numbers from a different era. Actual moving footage and sound make him feel much less like a name from a museum case. You can hear the voice and watch the swing of a player born in 1874.
"Tony Gwynn was the best pure hitter I ever faced!''
Tony Gwynn faced Maddux 107 times, batted .415 and never struck out.
"Am I better than Hank Aaron?
Stan Musial?
Frank Robinson?
Not a chance.
The only thing I want people to say about me is that I played the game the way it should be played.
What I've always wanted to do is be a complete player.
This is as close as I've ever come to it."
Tony Gwynn.
“I would always leave him feeling a lot better than before I had met him.”
Vin Scully on Tony Gwynn.
REPORT: Pro-life activists were unlawfully and unconstitutionally arrested at the Alamo for PEACEFULLY carrying signs. My attorney was present and is representing them.
I don’t know what country this is anymore. And honestly, this is actually bringing me to tears because why was I even in the military? If this is what my country is starting to look like, I certainly don’t recognize it anymore.
I am enraged. And I’m starting to understand the absolute disgust my attorney has for the police, who have quite literally turned, for the most part, into brown shirts.
The founder of @bucees Beaver Aplin put it best:
“Life’s too short to try to build in places that people don’t appreciate what you’re bringing.”
That’s why red states like Arkansas are surging and people and businesses are fleeing blue state.
Oh Fuck off, Christine. You’re just as guilty as your Genocidal Husband. Both of you are pieces of shit that committed War Crimes. You literally worked as the ‘Chief’ of Bioethics at the NIH on Human Subjects Research.
It’s over for the both of you…
🚨MASSIVE: U.S. Postmaster General announces that the Postal Service WILL NOT Deliver Mail-In Ballots to states who refuse to comply with President Trump’s Executive Order requiring them to provide lists of voters receiving them to ensure they are U.S. citizens.
SLAP IN THE FACE TO EVERY AMERICAN
SICK TO MY STOMACH !
I’m an American small business owner in the food industry — and I’m beyond angry.
Somalian immigrants are getting Unlimited Funding. SBA loans and grants for fake DAY CARE CENTERS & other Companies
While many veteran-owned businesses are denied funding
American entrepreneurs struggling to get their businesses funded
Real American Small businesses couldn’t get help after COVID.
This is sickening!