Fastball (2016)
Director
Jonathan Hock
Main cast
Kevin Costner; Hank Aaron; Nolan Ryan; Derek Jeter; Denard Span
Genres
Documentary
Description
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.
Jonathan Hock
Main cast
Kevin Costner; Hank Aaron; Nolan Ryan; Derek Jeter; Denard Span
Genres
Documentary
Description
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.
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