Cleveland Indians’ ace Bob Feller is clocked at 98.6 miles per hour by a U.S. Army device

 

On August 20, 1946, At Griffith Stadium prior to the start of the game against the Senators in Washington, using the U.S. Army’s Sky Screen Chronograph, Bob Feller‘s fastball is clocked at 98.6 miles-per-hour, breaking Yankee hurler Atley Donald‘s 1939 speed record of 94.7 mph.

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