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Fastball

Fastball

The game is played in the blink of an eye.

2016•1h 27m•7.1/10
Documentary

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7.1/10(51)

Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.

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Production

Hock Films, Legendary Digital Media

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

Narrator

Hank Aaron

Hank Aaron

Self (archive footage)

Nolan Ryan

Nolan Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Self

Denard Span

Self

Craig Kimbrel

Self (archive footage)

Justin Verlander

Self (archive footage)

Bryce Harper

Self (archive footage)

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Clifford Blankenship (voice)

George Brett

George Brett

Self (archive footage)

Joe Morgan

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Bench

Self (archive footage)

Tony Gwynn

Tony Gwynn

Self (archive footage)

Ernie Banks

Ernie Banks

Self (archive footage)

Rich Gossage

Self (archive footage)

Mike Schmidt

Mike Schmidt

Self (archive footage)

Al Kaline

Self (archive footage)

David Price

Self (archive footage)

Bob Gibson

Bob Gibson

Self (archive footage)

Aroldis Chapman

Self (archive footage)

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