High Heat: Finding Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher
April 12, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball History, New and Upcoming Releases
High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time by Tim Wendel
Yesterday we posted an interview with the author that touched off a wonderful debate on who was, in fact, the fastest pitcher of all time. So this expanded post contains some additional facts about 100+ [...]
“It’s 9:46pm in the City of the Angels”
March 26, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball Writing
The other day, I heard a segment on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with radio announcer Jon Miller. The discussion turned to the great Vin Scully, still doing Dodger games after over 50 years in the booth. They remarked about a game in 1965 when Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game and how Scully’s 9th [...]
