Michael asked:


Professional baseball pitchers can throw 90-95 mph, and — argueably — the fastest pitches ever thrown were in the 101-103 mph range.

But how fast can the average joe (like me) throw a baseball? Someone who’s never played baseball at any level, but is reasonably athletic and coordinated. I figure I can hurl a baseball close to 60 mph on a good day. Sound reasonable?

Has anybody here who doesn’t play organized baseball ever been clocked with a radar gun? How’d you do? Anybody have any guesses for ball speed by an average joe? Other than wild guesses, I mean.