Fastball (2016)

7.2/10 87 min Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Kevin Costner

Narrator

Hank Aaron

Self (archive footage)

Nolan Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Derek Jeter

Self

Chris Cooper

Clifford Blankenship (voice)

George Brett

Self (archive footage)

Tony Gwynn

Self (archive footage)

Ernie Banks

Self (archive footage)

Mike Schmidt

Self (archive footage)

Bob Gibson

Self (archive footage)

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