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To: wideawake

The longest pass in the air was 83 yards thrown by Don Meridith to Bob Hays (249 feet)

I have not been able to find a statistic for longest throw in the air for a baseball. They keep track of the total throw with roll in a game.

No one is going to throw a rock 300 feet. Washington wasn’t a baseball player either.


10 posted on 07/03/2008 7:24:58 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: Soliton
The longest pass in the air was 83 yards thrown by Don Meridith to Bob Hays (249 feet)

That's completed, of course.

I have not been able to find a statistic for longest throw in the air for a baseball. They keep track of the total throw with roll in a game.

True. However, the point of an outfield throw is to throw a catchable ball to an individual, not to hit a riverbank.

Balls are thrown with almost pinpoint accuracy from 150 feet in the MLB all the time.

If accuracy in the context of a game was not a factor, these guys could throw a ball wildly much, much further.

No one is going to throw a rock 300 feet.

Plenty of people have thrown golf balls and baseballs that distance.

Washington wasn’t a baseball player either.

No, but he was an unusually tall and strong young man with an athletic bent and throwing a rock over a river does not require anywhere near the same accuracy or skill that is demanded of a baseball outfielder - just strength.

I guarantee that there are right now at least a thousand teenagers in Texas alone who can throw a 6 ounce baseball 83 yards.

11 posted on 07/03/2008 7:41:51 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Soliton

But it said the house stood on a terrace overlooking the river. So he was not throwing that distance on level ground.


37 posted on 03/03/2015 4:30:20 AM PST by AFreeBird
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