I’ll admit it. I don’t watch that much baseball. But check out this throw Rick Ankiel (of the Cardinals) makes all the way from center field.

No one had a radar gun on this to find the speed of the ball. Why would you? But let me see if I can get an estimate of it anyway. Was it as fast as a pitch? I have no idea.

Starting Info

What can I get from the video? First, it looks like he throw the ball pretty close to the back wall. Using Google Earth, this is about 101 meters to third base.

Actually, his second throw was also about 101 +/- 3 meters (it seemed closer to...