Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for human cognition and accelerates into the realm of intuition. Fastball is a look at how the game at its highest levels of achievement transcends logic and even skill, becoming the primal struggle for man to control the uncontrollable.

"The game is played in the blink of an eye."

Credits

Jonathan HockDirector

Kevin CostnerNarrator

Hank AaronSelf (archive footage)

Nolan RyanSelf (archive footage)

Derek JeterSelf