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What is the longest distance anyone has ever thrown any type of ball?

Question #105360. Asked by madkeen4.
Last updated May 15 2021.

scottietwenty3
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scottietwenty3
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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.

link http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Gorbous.Glen.Obit.html


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 15 2021.
May 06 2009, 5:26 AM
scottietwenty3
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scottietwenty3
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Answer has 9 votes.

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Answer Golf Ball : 170 yd or 155.448 m

link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPiif2pPZs

I found this on a cricket ball throw.

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.

link http://content.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/134732.html

Oops made a mistake with my conversion b4

Baseball Answer: 445.1 ' = 135.666 m thats more like it.
Cricket ball: Answer: 140.2 yd = 128.198 m
Golf Ball: 170 yd = 155.448 m

May 06 2009, 5:36 AM
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