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[30 May 2009 | One Comment | ]

Yesterday I was watching Sportcenter on ESPN when they showed a segment on the likely number one draft pick in the MLB for 2009.  Some analyst stated that Stephen Strasburg of San Diego State Unversity is a phenom with a fastball clocking in at 103 mph. That is not a typo folks 103 miles per hour, 165.7 kilometers per hour or 151 feet per second. So how fast is that really? Well from the pitchers mound to home plate 60.5 feet which means you will have just about 0.4 seconds to …