What’s it like facing some of the hardest heat in the game? Let Derek Jeter take you into an at-bat against one of baseball’s fireballers, like the former Yankee captain does in the upcoming documentary film, “Fastball.”
Jeter recalls facing Troy Percival, the Angels’ intimidating reliever, in an early-career at-bat. Percival, all razor stubble and attitude, threw a fastball regularly clocked toward the upper 90s during his career.
“I remember my first year, I was 20 years old and I was wide-eyed. Overwhelmed,” Jeter says in the 85-minute movie. It was one of Jeter’s first games at Yankee Stadium during his callup in 1995.