"You don't have to light up the radar gun to be successful, " Uggla said.
By the beginning of his sophomore year he was registering 93 to 95 miles per hour on the radar gun.
Yet at one point during his senior year in college he was clocking 92 miles per hour on the radar gun.
The rest left with a 45 mph fastball, a sore elbow, and a conviction that the radar gun must be defective.
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They set up a radar gun outside the stadium with a picture of Moyer and this simple challenge: Can YOU Throw Faster Than ME?
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If the perceptual abilities of autocars were hooked into the police (moving about in their self-driven patrol cars), every road would be a speed trap and every car a radar gun.
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He's also hit 97 mph on the radar gun.
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Chris Holt, a former major-leaguer who now coaches prospects at Pro Bound USA, a Florida baseball academy, says young pitchers who can't hit 90 on the radar gun don't get a serious look.
Major league baseball players, like all professional athletes, are freaks of nature, and it takes the hard reality of a radar gun to illustrate the vastness of the gulf between the game that we played as kids and the game we watch them play now.
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The electronics in your radar or laser detector work no faster than those in my radar or LIDAR gun.
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Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.
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