Fastball

Fastball

Fastball

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2016•87 min•Documentary

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Kevin Costner

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Hank Aaron

Self (archive footage)

Nolan Ryan

Self (archive footage)

Derek Jeter

Self

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Denard Span

Self

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Craig Kimbrel

Self (archive footage)

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Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.

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