The irony of the push to speed up the game of baseball – the amount of time between pitches, between commercial breaks, between anything that might actually appeal to the iGeneration – is that speed has always been at the heart of the game.
396 milliseconds.
That’s all that separates a hitter and the heaviest, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it fastballs in a new feature-length presentation searching for the hardest thrower ever. Opening March 25 at the Digital Gym in San Diego, the 85-minute FASTBALL calls on narrator Kevin Costner, baseball legends like Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson and Hank Aaron and current stars Justin Verlander and Andrew McCutchen in a narrative blending the history, mythology and physics of the ultimate mano-a-mano showdown.