Posted on 01/28/2021 4:45:20 PM PST by SamAdams76
Everybody, boy or girl, throws things during the course of their lifetimes. There is a point in time where a person throws something the furthest they have ever thrown something before. Usually it's a baseball or maybe a frisbee or a rock.
When that particular throw is made, that person might know that they have never thrown something that far before but might not at that time realize that they will never throw something that far ever again.
For the rest of their lives, as they age and their bodies become weaker, they find themselves throwing things less and less further than before. But everybody has that one shining moment when they hurled an object further than they ever hurled an object before.
When was that time for you? Or did you even remember when that was?
For me, I believe that time occurred during the summer of 1985. I was on vacation in New Hampshire with sone friends and we started throwing around a frisbee in an open field near where we were staying. We had our dogs around us and they were all barking and prancing about with their tongues lolling out of their mouths in the frenzied way that dogs are known for.
One of the dogs, a border collie mix of a dog, waddled up to me with a frisbee and I pulled it out of the dog's teeth and in a moment of extreme energy, I ran a a few steps forward and flung that frisbee with all my might across the open field. It sailed and it sailed and finally landed in the trees on the perimeter of the field at least 300 feet and maybe more. In many ballparks, I would have thrown for a home run.
The mouths of my companions fell open and the dogs were sufficiently impressed that they didn't even bother chasing after it. Eventually, we all walked over towards the strand of trees but we never did find that frisbee. Likely it got lodged in the upper branches of one of them, never to be seen again. For all I know, it might still be up there in that tree.
It was a fairly windy day and I'm sure the wind assisted that frisbee in its epic flight. I know for a fact that I never threw anything that far ever since.
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Iowa in 50’s. Sometime in early 40’s Iowa had javelin in high school. It was dropped because I think someone got speared. Went to football throw which was dropped in 1963.
Live hand grenade practice. The practice grenades were great for the precision throwing but that first live one went 3x as far as any practice one did.
Hahaha.!it’s a steep learning curve.
Roman Gabriel would show off by throwing a football the length of the field.
You think anybody wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I’m wearing these bad boys?
Presidents Physical Fitness Test, 1973.
Jeez. Who let you out?
I threw a yellow brick straight up in 1964 and it still has not come down.
Butterfly Effect.
One Mile with a 300 Win Mag. With my own arm center field to home plate when I was young years ago. I could not do that today.
Question for Freepers of knowledge and physics. Whom hit the longest golf ball drive ever and where. It was a hell of long drive for the ball and to get to the golf course.
Shepard on the Moon!
Fuggetaboutit.
John Daly. He hit it from Arkansas all the way to the moon. Seriously.
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Threw a baseball about 1 mile. That was a great day.
“Sheppard on the Moon”
You win. It is estimated the ball went 2 to 2-1/2 miles. They are not sure with this one exception. It was certainly the longest drive ever and the longest trip to the golf course ever. Oddly there were no green fees as the nearest bit of green was on earth many thousands of miles away. Even more unfortunate the 19th hole bar did not exist on the moon.
Alan Shepard had a sence of humor.
Had a border collie and we would do a lot of short throws and he would jump up on my back and off my shoulders to catch the frisbee, a lot of lesser tricks, spinning, etc... and then I would whirl and throw it about 80 yards and he would run down underneath it and jump, catching it 6 feet off the ground. Amazing animal with amazing energy and he would keep going until he dropped if I let him.
But I played a lot of baseball growing up and through high school. Mostly a catcher and 3rd base. When I was in my early 20s, I worked for a company with a co-rec softball league. I was playing right field. A gal was playing center. Runners on first and second, we were up by two runs in the 7th (no 9 innings). This girl steps up to the plate and she was an obvious athlete. She hit a hard shot to center. The centerfielder ran in to catch it but it sailed over her head. I ran the ball down near the fence, took a glance to see the batter on her horse approaching 3rd base. No time to hit a cut-off, I threw it toward home as hard as I could. The throw was a little up the line and hit the batter in the back of her legs (in the air) knocking her down about 10 feet short of home plate.
Haha, she got up and limped across the plate. Not a major league field by any stretch, the centerfield fence was about 250 so the throw was a good 230 feet. Somebody on the other team accused me of trying to hit her. Seriously? She was good about it though.
I threw a wad of Money from Austin, TX to Washington D.C. the 1st year I had to file because I sold some Stocks I had.
I can’t throw for anything but I did watch my grandson in a HS game throw from right field to the catcher at home plate. Perfect throw right into the glove. And yep, he got the runner out!
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