Glen Gorbous, a Canadian minor leaguer, who had a three year stint in the Majors from 1955 - 1957 still holds the record. In 1957, after a running start, the ball left his arm at an estimated 120 MPH and it flew and flew and flew. After all was said and done the baseball covered a total of 445 feet 10 inches before hitting the ground and breaking the old record by a whole nine inches. Glen Gorbous broke Don Grate's record throw of 445 feet 1 inches set in 1956.
One of the longest-standing records to be found in Wisden is that of throwing the cricket ball. The stark and in a sense almost elliptically-worded statement records that one Richard Percival threw the cricket ball 140 yds 2 ft, on the Durham Sands Racecourse, Co. Durham in 1884. Yet nagging insubstantiality surrounds this particular record.
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