Can Parker Hageman hit a 100mph fastball and can Dan Anderson catch a 100mph fastball? Courtesy of the Killebrew 100 MPH Fastball Challenge, they both have the opportunity to try.

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Parker and Dan, Thanks to Dan, especially. No way I'm getting back there. That took guts. That was so funny. I watched it several times. All of TD readers need to watch this. 

That was awesome! "I'm out."

I think that it would be easier with an actual pitcher than a ball flying out of a small hole.  

It might also have helped to start at 70 mph and work up.

 

At one point in my early 40's I worked my way up to the top speed of a machine that supposedly threw 92mph. With a light bat, I could hit a line drive about half the time, missing clean the other half. Weird yellow balls with dimples. Next time I tried was a several years later. 80mph was a blur, but I didn't work my way up. Couldn't get around on it because It came out of the hole at random times, often drifting all over the place outside the zone. Crappy machine. Not worth the money.

I cannot imagine what it must be like to try hitting an 87mph slider or a 92mph cutter. Can you imagine how hard it was to hit a Maddox heater, when he could bend it a foot in either direction with pinpoint control, and no way to read it?