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