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Originally posted by Black92LX:

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Originally posted by mod29:
I've never seen an arm quite like that before. Unreal.

You missed out on watching Bo Jackson play!

Indeed. Bo had a gat of an arm. Didnt even crow hop half the time! I just pulled up a few vids on YT.

Well I couldn’t understand a word they were saying

Incredible throw to home plate. Sure would’ve liked to see the tag more clearly; it was really close.

Dave Parker had a gun.

Reminds me of "the Hawk" Andre Dawson.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Vladimir Guerrero
Roberto Clemente
Bo Jackson

Yep, all 3 electric arms

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Originally posted by MRBTX:
This guy knew a thing or two about throwing hard...

Noland Ryan was a beast!
Back in the day a little "Chin Music" was common place.
He never backed down from anybody! Charge the mound at me? Game on!
These days if a pitcher throws 100 times it's rare.
Before they tracked pitch counts I've heard commentators say he probably threw 150, no problem.

We had cheap deep right seats at the Coliseum. Frank Howard threw one like that and nailed the runner at third. Very impressive

Dwight ('Dewey') Evans had a great arm, also.

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Originally posted by Slippery Pete:
Reminds me of "the Hawk" Andre Dawson.

One of my favorite players growing up. I worked at a very early age and made straight A’s all through public school. I would get the Cubs calendar and call in sick for the max allowable days. None of my teachers ever figured out that every sick day was conveniently the same day as Wrigley Cub games on WGN. Loved all those day games. Ryne Sandberg, Mark Grace, Greg Maddux, Shawon Dunston, Jim Sundberg, Rafael Palmeiro. Those were the days.

I think the Japanese take baseball even more seriously than we do.

I thought I read somewhere that the MLB has a hard time attracting the really good Japanese players because they can actually make far more money playing in Japan than they can in America for the MLB.