from the 60 feet, 6 inches mound, the fastest pitchers in the MLB have probably thrown in the mid 100-s miles pe hour. Most professional pitchers throw somewhere between 88-95 mileper hour as their top speed. Steve Dalkowski, who was a pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles system is sometimes considered the fastest pitcher in Baseball history. There was no radar gun to test his exact speed back then (1950s-1960s) but it is said he regularly threw above 100 mph, and hit 110 mph on a few occurences during the prime of his career.
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