fastballer

Elway, a fastballer, got Strawberry on a fly ball.

Ty Cobb recalled his first encounter with the rookie fastballer:

Like a fastballer learning an off-speed pitch, Messier has perfected a delayed, wrong-footed wrist shot, which has baffled goalies throughout the league.

Legendary fastballer and pitching contemporary Walter Johnson once said, "Can I throw harder than Joe Wood?

A young Clint Thomas, who later became a successful outfielder, was the team's second baseman; fastballer Roy Roberts was the workhorse of the pitching staff.

"Now we'll have sinkerballer, fastballer, sinkerballer," Harrelson said in reference to Viola, Gooden and Ojeda, respectively.

A hard-throwing fastballer, Dennis recorded a 1.47 earned run average for the Triple-A Jacksonville Suns in 1965 before being called up to the Cardinals in the midseason.

A 26-year-old left-handed fastballer for the Barnsley Cricket Club in South Yorkshire, England, he spends the off-season in his hometown of Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Red Sox 4, Mariners 0 The knuckleballer beat the fastballer as Tim Wakefield's five-hitter lifted Boston to victory and gave Randy Johnson (14-3) of Seattle just his third loss in his last 40 starts.

After all, the flaky fastballer of "Bull Durham" is only a character played by Tim Robbins - and Mr. Robbins is off to Malta and London for the next 10 weeks, starring in "Erik the Viking."

I lifted the line from the water, pulled back on the line with my left hand to put even more pressure on the rod and then as my back cast uncurled, I turned and opened my body till I had assumed the position of a fastballer just before he comes forward.

Paige recalled, "Everybody'd heard I was a fastballer and here I was throwing Alley Oops and bloopers and underhand and sidearm and any way I could to get the ball up to the plate and get it over, maybe even for a strike.