01 Jan 2017
Hope: One in a Billion
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Fastball
The game is played in the blink of an eye.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Kevin Costner Narrator
Hank Aaron Self (archive footage)
Nolan Ryan Self (archive footage)
Derek Jeter Self
Denard Span Self
Craig Kimbrel Self (archive footage)
Justin Verlander Self (archive footage)
Bryce Harper Self (archive footage)
Chris Cooper Clifford Blankenship (voice)
George Brett Self (archive footage)
Joe Morgan Self (archive footage)
Johnny Bench Self (archive footage)
Tony Gwynn Self (archive footage)
Ernie Banks Self (archive footage)
Rich Gossage Self (archive footage)
Mike Schmidt Self (archive footage)
Al Kaline Self (archive footage)
David Price Self (archive footage)
Bob Gibson Self (archive footage)
Aroldis Chapman Self (archive footage)
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