{"id":1434,"date":"2003-09-14T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T00:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/14\/throwing-serious-heat\/"},"modified":"2003-09-14T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T00:56:56","slug":"throwing-serious-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/14\/throwing-serious-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Serious Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n from the New York Times<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Any fan of baseball or the Guiness Book of World Records
\n will enjoy this longish article on 100-mph fastball pitchers.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Robert Adair, a physicist and professor emeritus at Yale
\n University and the author of ”The Physics of Baseball,” throwing a ball
\n this hard transcends the ordinary parameters of the game. ”It’s really
\n at the edge of what human beings can do,” Adair told me. <\/p>\n

Adair said a 100-m.p.h. fastball reaches the catcher four-tenths of a
\n second after it leaves the pitcher’s hand. A batter has fifteen-hundredths
\n of a second to react to a 100-m.p.h. fastball. ”The ball,” Adair said,
\n ”moves faster than you can move your eyes.” <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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