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The World's Best Ball Throwers
What's the furthest anyone has thrown a ball? It's difficult to find the answer on the internet, where there are different records for baseball (North America) and cricket (Britain and its former colonies).
On August 1, 1947, a Canadian, Glen Gorbous, hurled a baseball an almost incredible 445 feet 10 inches (135.89 metres). Since then, no one seems to have broken that world record. It has been estimated that Glen's "muzzle" velocity would have been around 120 mph (193 kph), with a running start.
The Gorbous drill, a special training technique developed for baseball throwing, was named after him. It involves throwing the ball straight up in the air as a way of developing the muscles used in distance throwing.
World-famous athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson threw a baseball 296 ft. (90.22 metres) on July 25, 1931, and that probably is still the furthest a woman has ever managed to throw a ball.
You might think that a cricket ball, being slightly heavier and smaller than a baseball, would fly further, but that's not borne out by past statistics. Spectators at The Oval (London) in 1878 wildly applauded cricket icon, Dr. William Gilbert Grace, when he threw a ball more than 116 yards (106.07 metres) three times with the wind, and more than 100 yards (91.44 metres) in the opposite direction.
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I remember reading once that some smart prop bet guy who played a night of poker vs al capone, they walked out in the morning light to get some breakfast or some thing and he said to Al Capone, I bet I can throw a mellon over that house (think it a mellon some fruit that cant be thrown easy), Al Capone said ok I take that bet, so the guy goes over to the fuit stand but instead of picking up a mellon he picks up an orange or some thing (or already has a oven treated mellon, he then promptly tosses it clean over the house.
He got paid but basicly if Capone had found out what he did he would have been delt with in their normal way of dealing with things they did not like..
Last edited by buddha01; 04-23-2008 at 11:03 AM.