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Doubtful. He'd cream the fastball. The only way to get to him was to continual change your pitching pattern. He always said the toughest pitchers he faced were Bob Lemon, Early Wynn, Whitey Ford, Ted Lyons and Eddie Lopat. Guys that would change their pattern and keep him guessing wrong.

You're missing the point. The point is that it wasn't that they couldn't throw fast in the past. They could. But their emphasis was trying to get outs and win ball games. Throwing fast was only one tool in their ****nal. Only a few like Bob Feller or Sam McDowell tried to throw hard all the...

A decade ago? Nolan Ryan was throwing 100 mph 50 years ago. Bob Feller was clocked at 106 mph. People who had seen Walter Johnson before radar guns compare him favorably to those that were timed at 100 mph. Walter Johnson himself said that Smokey Joe Wood was the fastest. Throwing fast wasn't...

While training may be better now, the facts indicate that the opposite is true. In 1968, Bob Gibson led the majors with 1.12 era, fourth lowest ever, only exceeded in the dead ball era. The same season, Don Drysdale had 58 2/3 scoreless inning streak (the same season Gibson also has 47)...