TIL: The fastest swing speed ever recorded in a game was 88.0 MPH. This happened 29 times. No player has swung even 0.1 MPH faster.

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2. Is it possible that the instrument that detects swing speed cannot return a higher reading than that?

3. Yeah, seems like a data artifact.

4. *checks swing speed gauge…..0-88*

5. I’m sure it’s an instrument reading limit. No way it happened that many times with nobody going above

6. 3.6 Roentgens.

7. How is Stanton not on this list

8. How tf is Stanton not on this list?

9. If you go any faster you go backwards in time

10. 4-11 on balls in play.

11. I’m pretty sure they had swing speed monitors in older home run derby’s and Griffey was in the high 70’s and mcgwire was in the 90’s

12. 1.21 Gigawatts!!!

13. This is like my bathroom scale. It only goes upto 200 but I’m 220. Hmmm….

14. Fastest possible bat speed is apparently not the best way to hit the ball far. Only one homerun and only two balls hit 400 ft. Vast majority hit under 250ft.

15. It’s like a video game cap

16. Come on man

17. I only made it through the top 10 then concluded Nick Kurtz does this ALL the time.

18. So this is the speed limit.

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20. You’re gonna see some serious shit.

21. Not great not terrible

22. Dumper two times

23. Their hate is love rhetoric is stupid

24. Look at my A’s there

25. theres a vsauce video here

26. Hey, I wonder why 88 mph was chosen for the films?

27. When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit

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29. Who cares. Just put the ball in play

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31. Not even 80.05<

    I think your machine is broken dude.

32. This feels like a 3.6 Roentgen scenario. It seems so weird that over the years 29 people have hit that exact speed and nobody has gone a 10th of an mph faster. There almost has to be a measurement issue.

33. Yeah totally. 88 has been hit 29 times but nobody has swung 88.1. Totally makes sense, thank god I lack logic entirely!

34. It’s like getting to 255 KM/H on Rad Racer back in the day.