There was a key moment in the post-season, 1980 or 1981, when one of the networks was using a NEWER model of radar gun.I kind of half-remember the brand names, so i won't get into that. Ryan (and Goose Gossage) would throw 97 and 98, sometimes 99, on those guns.
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This is my understanding of it.and those who made the documentary you refer to probably had a tighter grip on some of this than I do, and I encourage you to watch it if you are interested in the subject.īut TV networks got radar guns about 1977 or 1978, and we started to see radar readings then. If he threw 101 on the radar guns available at that time, that was probably one pitch, you know? Next pitch might have been 98. but I don't know that I would go so far as to assert that Ryan threw 110 that seems to me to be pushing the evidence to Ryan's advantage. "I have not seen the documentary you refer to. Pitches today are clocked very close to their release point.
The difference? 1970s pitch velocity was measured as it crossed the plate. In the documentary "Fastball," the filmmakers estimated that Nolan Ryan’s fastest pitch ever as recorded by 1970s technology, registered 101 in the 1970s, but would have registered 110 by today’s methods. I thought this question and answer on was really interesting: I had heard that the radar devices used to measure pitch speed have changed over the years, but had idea how much or when they changed.
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