The new documentary Fastball explores the classic showdown between pitcher and batter. Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends & scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever.
10 October 1986, Fort Meade, Florida, USA
16 October 1992, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
28 May 1988, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
18 January 1955, Lynwood, California, USA
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
31 January 1947, Refugio, Texas, USA
27 March 1989, New London, Connecticut, USA
26 August 1985, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
8 November 1989, Panorama City, California, USA
12 February 1986, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
18 April 1983, Maracay, Venezuela
7 December 1990, Cienfuegos, Cuba
26 June 1974, Pequannock, New Jersey, USA
20 February 1983, Manakin-Sabot, Virginia, USA
April 21, 2016
I've seen lots of baseball clips but there are clips in this film I've never seen, including some fine clips of the legendary Walter Johnson. But there's a lot more to it than that.This is a film that no baseball fan should miss.
March 28, 2016
The sunniness of Fastball leaves out a lot, but watching it can be as pleasurable as an afternoon at the ballpark.
March 28, 2016
The lively MLB-produced doc's choice archival material and full roster of new interviews will delight fans, both as a warm-up to the 2016 season and beyond.
March 31, 2016
If you are not familiar with this level of baseball nerdiness, then Fastball will be a revelation, and hopefully an entertaining one. If you are familiar, then Fastball will satisfy on a deep and extremely specific level.
March 25, 2016
Hock's documentary has a thrilling pop that should help it strike a competitive chord with anyone even remotely enchanted by our national pastime.
March 24, 2016
The irony of the push to speed up the game of baseball - the amount of time between pitches, between commercial breaks, between anything that might actually appeal to the iGeneration - is that speed has always been at the heart of the game.
March 23, 2016
Fastball will change the way you watch the game, without ever diminishing the sport's mystery and grandeur.
March 25, 2016
Suitably solemn yet irresistibly lively documentary about the myth, lore and logistics of baseball's classic pitch.
April 03, 2016
Baseball historians will best appreciate this documentary that tries to prove a popular source of speculation among the sport's aficionados.
March 05, 2016
A fascinating and entertaining attempt to answer baseball's Big Question -- Who was the fastest ever?
March 31, 2016
A fascinating and downright lovable documentary feature by Jonathan Hock.
March 24, 2016
You don't have to be a baseball fanatic or for that matter a historian or a physicist to appreciate "Fastball" ...
