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With a bizarre stiff-armed cricket bowler’s heave—and “utilizing the Tantric principle of body and mind,” as Plimpton reported—Finch became the first man to record a plus-103 mph fastball. He did it on St. Patrick’s Day, 1985 at Mets’ camp outside of Tampa...
...would not agree to catch a 168 mph pitch,” captain catcher Schuyler Mann wrote, adding that it would be “suicidal?...
...Charles joined the firm, was tainted by an incident called the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. In January of that year, according to one vivid report, a ?a storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of molasses exploded, creating a 15-foot tidal wave of sweetness that rushed at 35 mph through downtown Boston, leaving everything brown and sticky like a Mexican restaurant men?s room.... The Great Molasses Flood knocked down several buildings and an elevated train line and drowned 21 unfortunate (and evidently slow) people.? U.S. Industrial Alcohol eventually morphed into Chemstar, which (if I have it right...
...late October afternoon in leafy Brookline, and a routine traffic stop was about to turn into a scene from “Cops.” According to Brookline police, the driver of a white Subaru was doing 70 in a 30 MPH zone and failed to stop when instructed to pull over...
Ohlendorf is one such player. Described as “a bulldog” in his scouting report, Ohlendorf has been clocked at 97 mph and threw a two-hitter against Virginia in the only game Princeton won in the NCAAs...