I finally figured out that back then they registered the pitch speed 10 feet before reaching the plate.It is possible that the pitch wasn’t actually this fast.
According to people that know better than me the a pitch is clocked slower when it's 10 feet in front of home plate. The pitch was clocked at 100.1 but by today's measuring it would cross home plate at 108.5.
The pitch will lose speed as it approaches the plate. Today pitches are clocked 50 feet before home plate. In Ryan's day the ball was clocked as it crossed the plate. IF a ball was clocked at 108 mph when it already traveled 83% of its way to the plate, then it would make me believe that it couldn't be less than 107 mph as it crossed the plate.
I know records are made to be broken, but because of baseball analytics, where pitchers aren't throwing as many innings as they used to, I'd say Nolan Ryan's strikeout records are pretty secure.
I recall an All Star Game, and l believe it was Dave Parker up to bat. Ryan was whizzing those balls right past him, and on the called 3rd strike Parker asked the Umpire: “Didn’t that sound low to you?” 😄
I remember sitting at the games watching him warmup. POW!! You could hear the ball hit the catchers mitt anywhere in the stadium. My fondest memory is watch him against Catfish Hunter, wow!!
@@bobfeller604 Yup, it sounded a lot like the pitching version of one of Ohtani's shots reverberating around the stadium. I've never heard another pitcher who made that same sound!
1. Time frame - Early 1990’s 2. Location - Arlington Stadium 3. Situation - Nolan Ryan warming up before the game down right field baseline 4. Our seats - about 12 rows up from the field level at the visitor on deck circle 5. The sound of Nolan Ryan’s fastball hitting the catcher’s mitt - 30.06 rifle shot 6. Conclusion - never heard anything like it before that day or since - unmistakable Nolan Ryan rifle shot - sounded like the trigger was pulled no more than 40-50 feet away. Legend!!!
My pop told me a story about Koufax which could probably apply to Ryan. Koufax threw a fastball to a batter and the ump called it a strike. The batter turned to the ump and said, "You gotta be kidding me, that was high! The ump replied, "You didn't even see it." The batter replied, "I know, but it sounded high."
I still kick myself for giving away his rookie card along with all of my other baseball cards when we moved in 1973. Of course, we had no idea then how he'd turn out. I did keep my '68 Tom Seaver card, which I still have.
I collected hardcore from 1977-1995, but I did have some nice older rookies and Nolan Ryan was one of those, as well as Seaver, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, etc. I started out as football only because the candy store down the street on the corner didn’t have anything else for 2 years after I started. I didn’t know there were any others. I got lucky when TG&Y had 55gallon drums full of unopened wax packs. I spent close to $500 on wax packs were on sale for $0.10 each and they were years ‘84 to ‘88 I think. Among those ‘86-‘87 Fleer basketball. A LOT of them, well over half of nearly 3 55 gallon drums of wax packs. Superstar rookie cards (not necessarily their rookie year) for days. The cool thing about opening these packs is that you already knew who the superstars were and which ones would be worth more. Not counting all the outstanding cards in that set. I pulled just 3 players out and put them aside: Bird, Johnson and some dude named Jordan. 24 Jordan rookies pulled from packs bought for 10 cents a piece (i later paid $279/pack in 1993 or 94 and got two more Jordan rookies.) Anyway, I got out of the hobby completely in 1996. It made me sick seeing insert card values many times more valuable than rookie cards in the set. They ruined the hobby for me. I sold all my cards for next to nothing considering the value today. Sadly, l sold them before grading became all the rage when a Micheal Jordan rookie went for a measly $700. That $500 I spent back during high school was by far and large the best investment I’ve ever made, but had I waited another few years, I wouldn’t have had to retire …because I would’ve never had to work, lol.
I never forget the voice and signature catchphrase (HOLY COW!) of the great Harry Caray. 😀 With Ryan wearing an Angels uniform and interleague play still being a few decades away, this must have been against an AL opponent. Was this game against the White Sox, one of Caray's employers before he hired on with the Cubs?
Absolute legend….he’d whoop your ass with a pitch across the plate or if you had the balls to leave the plate and meet him on the mound he’d whoop your ass as well…..they just don’t make em like this anymore
This guy and by the way is my cousin Nolan Ryan is the all-time strikeout leader and always will be. I've been following him since he was 19 years old coming out of the bullpen for the New York Mets.
I remember when I really started watching baseball(early 80’s). The Astros had Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Bob Knepper and Jim Deshaies on their pitching staff. Incredible!
Ok, we need some MIT guys to pin down EXACTLY how hard that was thrown! Analyze the film frame rate, look at biomechanics and foot placement of catcher to determine exact distance and exact time of travel! Side by side slow mo with Aroldis Chapman would be awesome!
As usual the mistake is made again! The commentator said; "Wow, Is he throwing "HARD".... It's not how "HARD" he's throwing, It's how "FAST" he is throwing......
This is not the 100.8 pitch (adjusted for todays guns 108). This game was played on 08/07/1974. The promotion for the Angels "Guess the Velo day" for ryan was a month later on 09/07/1974.
Too bad he pitched back in the 1930s and we didn't have the technology we have today. That people speculate that he threw 110 to 115 miles an hour. I do like the tales of those fish that got away. I mean even this picture you know if it was for a strike that would be great. Throwing the ball 108 miles an hour doesn't win games, unless it's called a strike.
@@zelmoziggy if there is old film of him throwing modern AI could determine with fairly high accuracy his pitching speed. But hand wound cameras and old footage makes it very hard to determine. You can analyze old film of runners and see how fast they ran to compare to pitch speed. Or people walking in the stands to see. In the end is it that big of deal?
I think it’s because it captures a moment in history that we want to see. We want to believe that approximately 40 years ago, Nolan Ryan threw it at 108 miles per hour, and your capture of this moment allows us to see and make our own conclusions on what we believe the speed actually was
1992...Arlington Stadium, Rangers vs White Sox ...i saw Ryan pitching for Rangers, Carlton Fisk catching for the White Sox. I don't know if this is the game.
@@daniellinehan63 right on...makes sense that this was much earlier in his career.... What a treasure for me to have seen Ryan pitch at the end of his career making that mitt pop And Fisk on the other side!
If he was even close to Greg Maddux's control and on better teams, he'd be considered the greatest pitcher ever...Look at how many shutouts and even complete games he had with a crappy record because of being on the Angels in the 70's...What a waste of an Absolute Phenom!
@@johnnymfbravo7163 yeah, they said that about the guys before Nolan Ryan when they were topping out at 99-100 mph. The more psychedelics become available to people the higher the max will get. I’m going to guess 110 will be common in 30 years
Yes, he threw hard, but he had control issues, hence why the pitch was caught so far off the plate. Had he taken some velocity off, he could have had much better control, and likely easily won multiple Cy Young awards. Those BB's are killer- he leads MLB in the most career walks, something no one will ever top.
I read that a reporter was interviewing a mlb hitter, don’t remember who, and he asked who threw harder Clemens Or Randy Johnson and the guy said no one threw harder than Nolan.
7 no hitters proves that when he was on his game, he was GREAT, he just wasn't on his game very often. It amazes me that he threw so hard for so long though. Guys today just don't last like that
Some no-hitters aren't so great when you get a closer look at the numbers. I'm a Twins fan and remember Ryan throwing a no-no against them in 1973. The great: 15 strikeouts. The not great: he walked 8 hitters.
Nolan Ryan could throw hard for the era. He wouldn’t make a major league team today. Those fastballs are equivalent to today’s curveballs. Nolan would only be qualified to sell hot dogs in the stands today.
@@chrisp3255 Not 108 buddy. Go look at Aroldis Chapman's 105.8 MPH world record pitch and tell this pitch was faster. Where's the radar gun reading in this video? Not to mention if it was 108 MPH this pitch would be in the record books instead of Chapmans.
Let's be clear. This isn't anywhere near 108mph and if you think it is then you're gullible as hell. I'll explain why you THINK it's 108, though, then you can feel really stupid. You think the ball is going faster than it really is because it moves across the screen much farther than most pitches do. The angle you have here puts the pitcher far to the left of the screen and the catcher towards the right. So when the ball moves on your screen, it travels far to the right. If the catcher was directly above the pitcher (which is closer to modern angles) then the ball wouldn't appear to be nearly as fast, because it doesn't travel as far across your screen. The pitch being very far outside is another reason why the illusion works. It travels even farther than normal across your screen. If this had been an inside pitch at the exact same speed, no one would think anything of it. It would travel about 30% less on your screen than the outside pitch did. If Nolan Ryan had been a lefty, it would look even faster. 108mph never happened. Yes, the myth is fun, but if 108 happened then someone else would have gotten close by now.
This video didn't demonstrate anything other than Ryan's terrible lack of control. He walked 2,795(!) batters and led the league in walks SEVEN times. No other pitcher has walked more than 2,000.
Yet he also struck out 5714 batters, so you can't forget about that. Yes, he has the most walks in a career, but he also has the most strikeouts and that's a record that will never be touched, since no one else has ever pitched more than 5000, not even Randy Johnson, who's in second place with 4875.
Nolan was a good (not great) pitcher...an example of more smoke than substance. Some nostalgic 80s kids mention him as the GOAT. By comparison, noodle-armed Greg Maddux has 26 more wins and 65 fewer losses. But it's still fun to see Nolan & Feller throw flames.🔥🔥
Cy, Christy, & Grover are the goats but they played in a different era. As far as modern greats, it's Clemens, Randy, and Maddux. Nolan doesn't even crack my top 20.
Feller won 24-27-25 games from 1939-1941 and then missed almost 4 full years because of war service (he had a cup of coffee in '46) then won 26 and 20 in '47, '48. So you can extrapolate what his lifetime stats could have been. Conservatively, that's another 100 wins. Yet, he is forgotten on lists of "best ever" pitchers. Shame
We managed to put a man on the moon in 1969 using computers that can't run Super Mario Brothers, but in the year 2023 we can't figure out the speed of a pitch that travels 60 feet.
I finally figured out that back then they registered the pitch speed 10 feet before reaching the plate.It is possible that the pitch wasn’t actually this fast.
According to people that know better than me the a pitch is clocked slower when it's 10 feet in front of home plate. The pitch was clocked at 100.1 but by today's measuring it would cross home plate at 108.5.
The pitch will lose speed as it approaches the plate. Today pitches are clocked 50 feet before home plate. In Ryan's day the ball was clocked as it crossed the plate. IF a ball was clocked at 108 mph when it already traveled 83% of its way to the plate, then it would make me believe that it couldn't be less than 107 mph as it crossed the plate.
I know records are made to be broken, but because of baseball analytics, where pitchers aren't throwing as many innings as they used to, I'd say Nolan Ryan's strikeout records are pretty secure.
...and his 7 no hitters too!
I think the No Hitters are safe too
Can you please imagine all the no hitters he'd have with all the 1 hit games he threw?
Not just the total no hitters, but throwing 2 in his 40s will never be touched. I can’t imagine anyone else throwing a no hitter past 40.
@@patrickstapleton3377, I got to see #6 against Oakland, what a magical game. Almost caught a foul ball that went about three feet over my head.
I recall an All Star Game, and l believe it was Dave Parker up to bat. Ryan was whizzing those balls right past him, and on the called 3rd strike Parker asked the Umpire: “Didn’t that sound low to you?” 😄
I remember sitting at the games watching him warmup. POW!! You could hear the ball hit the catchers mitt anywhere in the stadium. My fondest memory is watch him against Catfish Hunter, wow!!
He had more than a cannon ya think
True! I can attest. I went to Angel's Stadium and sat in the right field bleachers and heard that WHOMP!
@@bobfeller604 Yup, it sounded a lot like the pitching version of one of Ohtani's shots reverberating around the stadium. I've never heard another pitcher who made that same sound!
1. Time frame - Early 1990’s
2. Location - Arlington Stadium
3. Situation - Nolan Ryan warming up before the game down right field baseline
4. Our seats - about 12 rows up from the field level at the visitor on deck circle
5. The sound of Nolan Ryan’s fastball hitting the catcher’s mitt - 30.06 rifle shot
6. Conclusion - never heard anything like it before that day or since - unmistakable Nolan Ryan rifle shot - sounded like the trigger was pulled no more than 40-50 feet away. Legend!!!
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
Catcher almost lost his arm trying to snag that heater.
My pop told me a story about Koufax which could probably apply to Ryan.
Koufax threw a fastball to a batter and the ump called it a strike. The batter turned to the ump and said, "You gotta be kidding me, that was high!
The ump replied, "You didn't even see it."
The batter replied,
"I know, but it sounded high."
Joke definitely has some replays..😊❤😅
Best pitcher to EVER play! Absolute legend 👏💪
Most durable.....yes. Best....not even close. He's barely top 25, if that.
Not even close. He's not even top 50.
Crazy he never won a Cy Young Award
@@8644mec cope some more.
@@bradleyboyer9979 cope some more
Love to hear Harry Carey make the call!
*Caray
5000 + K's, Seven No Hitters. The Best.
I still kick myself for giving away his rookie card along with all of my other baseball cards when we moved in 1973. Of course, we had no idea then how he'd turn out. I did keep my '68 Tom Seaver card, which I still have.
You're still lucky. My dipshit brother sold my cards for what I assume was a fun night. I managed to keep two Mel Otts, but that was it!
I collected hardcore from 1977-1995, but I did have some nice older rookies and Nolan Ryan was one of those, as well as Seaver, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, etc.
I started out as football only because the candy store down the street on the corner didn’t have anything else for 2 years after I started. I didn’t know there were any others. I got lucky when TG&Y had 55gallon drums full of unopened wax packs. I spent close to $500 on wax packs were on sale for $0.10 each and they were years ‘84 to ‘88 I think. Among those ‘86-‘87 Fleer basketball. A LOT of them, well over half of nearly 3 55 gallon drums of wax packs. Superstar rookie cards (not necessarily their rookie year) for days. The cool thing about opening these packs is that you already knew who the superstars were and which ones would be worth more. Not counting all the outstanding cards in that set. I pulled just 3 players out and put them aside: Bird, Johnson and some dude named Jordan. 24 Jordan rookies pulled from packs bought for 10 cents a piece (i later paid $279/pack in 1993 or 94 and got two more Jordan rookies.)
Anyway, I got out of the hobby completely in 1996. It made me sick seeing insert card values many times more valuable than rookie cards in the set. They ruined the hobby for me. I sold all my cards for next to nothing considering the value today. Sadly, l sold them before grading became all the rage when a Micheal Jordan rookie went for a measly $700.
That $500 I spent back during high school was by far and large the best investment I’ve ever made, but had I waited another few years, I wouldn’t have had to retire …because I would’ve never had to work, lol.
The '73 Tom Seaver horizontal card is one of my all time favorites, and one of the few I still have from my childhood in the 70's.
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
I remember the first time I saw this video. That’s the hardest I’ve ever seen anyone throw a ball on camera or live.
Cgi
@@trhansen3244 heck yeah. I totally forgot 1974 was the golden age for CGI.
the catcher would not be able to move his glove up fast enough ain’t no way it was 108
Ah, another science denier. Back to school, Rodney!
I never forget the voice and signature catchphrase (HOLY COW!) of the great Harry Caray. 😀 With Ryan wearing an Angels uniform and interleague play still being a few decades away, this must have been against an AL opponent. Was this game against the White Sox, one of Caray's employers before he hired on with the Cubs?
Harry Caray was the White Sox announcer from like 1970-1981! It is weird to see Astroturf at Comiskey for that short span of the 1970s!
my favorite player of all time
The only pitcher to hit a batter 10 times in one at bat. What was Robin Ventura thinking?
Nolan Ryan. He could throw smoke and punch you out if you had a problem with it!
The batter is thining, "Thank God I am not a right handed hitter."
“Holy Cow! He throws it to the press box!”
Absolute legend….he’d whoop your ass with a pitch across the plate or if you had the balls to leave the plate and meet him on the mound he’d whoop your ass as well…..they just don’t make em like this anymore
Let's not over do it. Ventura wasnt exactly a bad ass. 😜🤪
@@jeffroegner1499no, but Ryan always was
I think it's a typo. Flip the 0 and the 8. More like 180!
This guy and by the way is my cousin Nolan Ryan is the all-time strikeout leader and always will be. I've been following him since he was 19 years old coming out of the bullpen for the New York Mets.
Mr. Nolan Ryan , you were , you still are , and you will always be the Man .
Goat
I remember when I really started watching baseball(early 80’s). The Astros had Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott, Bob Knepper and Jim Deshaies on their pitching staff. Incredible!
Imagine if JR Richard had not had his stroke.
Trump Lost
@@gregtennessee8249 so did your mom
108? If it was, I’d like to give all the credit to the catcher then. What is He, Superman? That was nowhere near the plate!
Yeah. It was no 108 mph. He threw high 90s and could touch 100 mph when his arm was loose.
@@TheFrenchPug the radar guns back then measured the ball differently so it actually is 108 In todays game
@@wavxy7454 No, thats not 108, stop lying to people
@@LogoShot0514 Of course it's 108, but go ahead and be a rebel acting like it's not.
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
Im surprised the catcher caught it
Do you believe how hard this guy could throw 🔥nobody can touch this today 😂🇨🇦🇺🇸
BULLSHIT! MORE dudes throw over 100 today than EVER before, not close
Much like Bruce the shark....a miracle of evolution. 😁
Jeez, good thing that wasn't a right handed batter.
Probably throwing that heat after 140 pitches.
With no rest 😂
Ok, we need some MIT guys to pin down EXACTLY how hard that was thrown! Analyze the film frame rate, look at biomechanics and foot placement of catcher to determine exact distance and exact time of travel! Side by side slow mo with Aroldis Chapman would be awesome!
I'd like to know that myself, and you said that correctly. Some MIT guy, or gal. I just would like to know that myself
Title is 108 mph pitch
@@JezuzIsLordthank you MIT guy
As usual the mistake is made again! The commentator said; "Wow, Is he throwing "HARD".... It's not how "HARD" he's throwing, It's how "FAST" he is throwing......
This is not the 100.8 pitch (adjusted for todays guns 108). This game was played on 08/07/1974. The promotion for the Angels "Guess the Velo day" for ryan was a month later on 09/07/1974.
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
Trump Lost
@@gregtennessee8249 so did your mom
no one talking about the catcher's reaction time
LOVE it!!!!!!!
The catcher probably needed two mitts to catch the Ryan Express! One to catch the ball after the other one had a hole in it!
Wow! 108mph! Take that Aroldis Chapman. Lol
He’s at Comiskey Park
Almost as fast as Steve Dalkowski.
Too bad he pitched back in the 1930s and we didn't have the technology we have today. That people speculate that he threw 110 to 115 miles an hour. I do like the tales of those fish that got away. I mean even this picture you know if it was for a strike that would be great. Throwing the ball 108 miles an hour doesn't win games, unless it's called a strike.
@@marvelousministry9434 On a related note, I fell for George Plimpton’s April Fools’ Day story about Sidd Finch in Sports Illustrated.
@@zelmoziggy what do you mean 168 Mi an hour? I didn't fall for that one I thought it's pretty funny
@@marvelousministry9434 That’s what I mean.
@@zelmoziggy if there is old film of him throwing modern AI could determine with fairly high accuracy his pitching speed. But hand wound cameras and old footage makes it very hard to determine. You can analyze old film of runners and see how fast they ran to compare to pitch speed. Or people walking in the stands to see.
In the end is it that big of deal?
Thank you for all the views guys. I have no idea how this blew up but thank you
I think it’s because it captures a moment in history that we want to see. We want to believe that approximately 40 years ago, Nolan Ryan threw it at 108 miles per hour, and your capture of this moment allows us to see and make our own conclusions on what we believe the speed actually was
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
Nolan Ryan never had a pitching coach with the Mets
Jorge Orta. Harry Caray. Tom Paciorek
I was there that day with my 4 daughters.
Ryan should have been cited for excessive speeding!
1992...Arlington Stadium, Rangers vs White Sox ...i saw Ryan pitching for Rangers, Carlton Fisk catching for the White Sox.
I don't know if this is the game.
Aug.8,'74
@@daniellinehan63 right on...makes sense that this was much earlier in his career....
What a treasure for me to have seen Ryan pitch at the end of his career making that mitt pop
And Fisk on the other side!
If Ryan had even 10% better control he would have been lifetime like 420 wins, 200 losses with over 6000 strikeouts or something. But oh well.
and his BB's wouldn't be major league leading. He wanted to show off his arm, but at the cost of precision.
If he was even close to Greg Maddux's control and on better teams, he'd be considered the greatest pitcher ever...Look at how many shutouts and even complete games he had with a crappy record because of being on the Angels in the 70's...What a waste of an Absolute Phenom!
Texas Legend !
My granmother once threw a Dragonfly fastball at 150 miles per hour but since she was an old lady she got no credits?
Imagine if that was a rhb at the plate..😅😅
Well, the MLB record is 105.8 mph, so 108 isn't too likely.
It wasn't a strike tho.
Is that the great Harry Carey calling the game?
The one and only!
No, it's Harry Caray.
Thank God the hitter wasn't a righty!
The reason for "Ryanitis"
I hear he developed his arm by helping deliver newspapers as a kid. All seriousness.
Yeah...he said it developed his left arm :)
Folk lore is so stupid lol
Ryan threw that hard because he had powerful legs. He generated most of his speed from the lower part of the body.
@@Dana-wq5tp all pitchers generate power from the ground lol
You're just describing peoper pitching mechanics
They must have been using the same radar gun used by the neighborhood cop that would bust me all the time in my 1970 GTO.
Hard to believe he never won a CY YOUNG award.
I wonder if it hurts to catch a 108 m.p.h. pitch? Even with a catchers mitt.
I was a catcher, sometimes I had a kitchen sponge between my hand and my mitt, I was catching 95's in high school
The poor catcher lol
Dude, charge your phone.
I don't think a human being is capable of throwing a baseball any faster than that.
I knw a dde tht thrw 110
give it a few years
@@tvviewer4500 - there are limits as to what a human body can do, and that is about as fast as a human can ever throw a baseball.
@@johnnymfbravo7163 yeah, they said that about the guys before Nolan Ryan when they were topping out at 99-100 mph. The more psychedelics become available to people the higher the max will get. I’m going to guess 110 will be common in 30 years
@@tvviewer4500 Walter Johnson was throwing 100 mph in 1917. 100-104 is the max limit for a human being.
wow
It would b 115 on today’s guns lol
All i know is that is fast
it was 102 tops
I wonder what Robin Ventura is doing these days? Probably not rushing the mound. 😂
Never happened.He held the record for awhile 100.9 mph.Not 108.
About 100 give or take 2 mph
The Express is the man don't make em like this guy anymore
Aroldis Chapman can try to beat that record
Where's the radar gun?
They called the pitch 10 feet before it reached the plate
@@mrseannydepp7146This wasnt the game smh
Yes, he threw hard, but he had control issues, hence why the pitch was caught so far off the plate. Had he taken some velocity off, he could have had much better control, and likely easily won multiple Cy Young awards. Those BB's are killer- he leads MLB in the most career walks, something no one will ever top.
to make an omelette, you have to break some eggs.
NOT 108!! not EVEN close
The fact that you lied about the 108 MPH maybe?
The camera angle is farther off from center than most are today. It was definitely a fast pitch, but this tends to make all pitches look a bit faster.
You can just use a timer and calculate the ball the moment it leaves his hand to the moment the catcher catches it
Nolan Ryan was way ahead of his time. Much like Babe Ruth, Lawrence Taylor and Michael Jordan
Hoollly
that is just a random clip. C'mon man
If he had todays shot clock to throw a pitch...his career would be over instantly
Nah,...Ryan was a fast worker. No nonsense!
Well he's 76 years old now.. Duuhhhh.
@@jcsmith725 I'm saying in his prime jabroni
Not 108.
No chance he was throwing 108. Consistently 100+? Ok i can buy that. But these are tall tales
You should see that documentary titled, FASTBALL. It was calculated he threw 108+. No joke...
Meh…Everyone knows Sidd Finch hit 168 in ‘85
Wow
I read that a reporter was interviewing a mlb hitter, don’t remember who, and he asked who threw harder Clemens Or Randy Johnson and the guy said no one threw harder than Nolan.
7 no hitters proves that when he was on his game, he was GREAT, he just wasn't on his game very often. It amazes me that he threw so hard for so long though. Guys today just don't last like that
Right. Some players go into the Hall of Fame. Ryan belongs in the Smithsonian.
Some no-hitters aren't so great when you get a closer look at the numbers. I'm a Twins fan and remember Ryan throwing a no-no against them in 1973. The great: 15 strikeouts. The not great: he walked 8 hitters.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 He had 24 no-hitters broken up in the seventh inning or later...
@@elvicare35 How many walks in those games…
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 Well, YOU'RE the expert...I LOVE experts, you're ALL so...EXPERTY!!!!!!! P.S.WHERE were you to HELP???!!!!!
Nolan Ryan could throw hard for the era. He wouldn’t make a major league team today. Those fastballs are equivalent to today’s curveballs. Nolan would only be qualified to sell hot dogs in the stands today.
Not 108 but it was fast
@@chrisp3255 Not 108 buddy. Go look at Aroldis Chapman's 105.8 MPH world record pitch and tell this pitch was faster. Where's the radar gun reading in this video? Not to mention if it was 108 MPH this pitch would be in the record books instead of Chapmans.
You should see that documentary titled, FASTBALL. It was calculated he threw 108+. No joke...
Too bad it didn't count. And the wild man Dalkowski threw even harder.
😢I don’t think they had pitch clocks back then
You’re right. Nolan Ryan had a weak arm
@@Slippindisc Nolan used his entire body to throw. That was his advantage Mr.
@@Slippindische was considered the best in the 70s tho. He had a cannon
@@mrseannydepp7146 the guy threw heat for 27 years regularly throwing pitch counts that are thought of as insane nowadays. I was being sarcastic.
How do we know it was 108 mph? Which game was this?
You should see that documentary titled, FASTBALL. It was calculated he threw 108+. No joke...
This was not clocked at 108. Fake.
Pretty cool story. Thanks for sharing it.
Let's be clear. This isn't anywhere near 108mph and if you think it is then you're gullible as hell. I'll explain why you THINK it's 108, though, then you can feel really stupid.
You think the ball is going faster than it really is because it moves across the screen much farther than most pitches do. The angle you have here puts the pitcher far to the left of the screen and the catcher towards the right. So when the ball moves on your screen, it travels far to the right. If the catcher was directly above the pitcher (which is closer to modern angles) then the ball wouldn't appear to be nearly as fast, because it doesn't travel as far across your screen.
The pitch being very far outside is another reason why the illusion works. It travels even farther than normal across your screen. If this had been an inside pitch at the exact same speed, no one would think anything of it. It would travel about 30% less on your screen than the outside pitch did.
If Nolan Ryan had been a lefty, it would look even faster.
108mph never happened. Yes, the myth is fun, but if 108 happened then someone else would have gotten close by now.
Yeah you’re right about the location of the pitch being an illusion. But that’s probably still 101 or 102 MPH
@@ryanforsythe definitely could be, but it's really hard to tell based on frame rate
Love Nolan Ryan however this pitch was a ball so who cares how fast it was.
Tom Seaver was much better. Look at stats.
Hat waste of 108
This video didn't demonstrate anything other than Ryan's terrible lack of control. He walked 2,795(!) batters and led the league in walks SEVEN times. No other pitcher has walked more than 2,000.
Yet he also struck out 5714 batters, so you can't forget about that. Yes, he has the most walks in a career, but he also has the most strikeouts and that's a record that will never be touched, since no one else has ever pitched more than 5000, not even Randy Johnson, who's in second place with 4875.
Lack of control you say. 5700 Ks, 7 no hitters, 3.20 era life time. I guess everybody wishes they had his lack of control
@@racehemi426425 that led to his effectiveness. if he threw them all over the plate some players could time his pitches better.
Nolan career did not take off until his mid 30s and into the 40s.
That was 100% not that fast
Nolan was a good (not great) pitcher...an example of more smoke than substance. Some nostalgic 80s kids mention him as the GOAT. By comparison, noodle-armed Greg Maddux has 26 more wins and 65 fewer losses. But it's still fun to see Nolan & Feller throw flames.🔥🔥
wins and losses aren't much to go off. Giving up 12 runs in a no desicion vs losing a 1 run game cmon man
i’ll take the big unit over both of them
Cy, Christy, & Grover are the goats but they played in a different era. As far as modern greats, it's Clemens, Randy, and Maddux. Nolan doesn't even crack my top 20.
Feller won 24-27-25 games from 1939-1941 and then missed almost 4 full years because of war service (he had a cup of coffee in '46) then won 26 and 20 in '47, '48. So you can extrapolate what his lifetime stats could have been. Conservatively, that's another 100 wins. Yet, he is forgotten on lists of "best ever" pitchers. Shame
Does Maddux have a high school named after him? Don’t think so
Aroldis Chapman > Nolan Ryan
Yet one is in the Hall of Fame, whereas the other likely won't be.
Ryan is HOF
We managed to put a man on the moon in 1969 using computers that can't run Super Mario Brothers, but in the year 2023 we can't figure out the speed of a pitch that travels 60 feet.