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fastball, n. N. Amer.|ˈfɑːstbɔːl|
Also fast ball, fast-ball.
[f. fast a. + ball n.]
1. a. Baseball. A fast pitch or delivery.
1899Sporting News 18 Mar. 2/3 The slow ball imposes an awful strain on my arm and almost destroyed the effectiveness of my fast ball. 1905Sporting Life 2 Sept. 11/4 Pitcher Clyde Goodwin will be given another trial by the Pirates. He has been purchased from Milwaukee by Pittsburg. He has secured control of his fast ball. 1949M. Wadlow in Smalley & Dennis Official Softball—Track & Field Guide 17 To throw an incurve, the ball is held in the same manner as for the fast ball. 1955A. Hano Day in Bleachers viii. 99 Carl Erskine, one of the better fast-ball pitchers, tried to throw a pitch past Mays. 1961Sport Feb. 53/3 Williams unloaded on a waist-high fastball and sent it into the bullpen. 1971L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 14 Many pitchers with good fastballs throw so that there is an off-line component to the ball's path—it tails off just a bit from true to left or right, or sinks. 1986Sci. Amer. Mar. 109/2 Standards for the batting helmet in baseball require that it protect the batter from a fastball thrown at 60 m.p.h.
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1978M. Puzo Fools Die xxi. 233 Cully would be in the clear, he had not tried to throw a fastball by Gronevelt.
2. Canad. A variety of the game of softball.
1949News of North 10 June 8/5 Much more practice is needed before the fast-ball comes up to the standard of Yellowknife nines. 1964Calgary Herald 20 May 15/3 Dates for the Alberta finals..were released by Alberta Fastball commissioner Ed Corbett Tuesday. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxi. 240 There would be men's fastball, just ordinary baseball, and then there was softball. |