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With help from McCann, Cease put the big fastball in his back pocket for the most part and went after the Tigers with his curveball, slider and changeup.

Featuring interviews with Derek Jeter and other former MLB stars, the film takes a closer look at the fastball and pitchers that mastered the No.1 pitch in baseball.

"Today I was trying to mix my pitches more and keep the fastball down," Cease said.

He added 24 pounds of muscle and beefed up his fastball to between 86 and 88 miles per hour by working out at Cressey Performance, where Tim Collins of the Kansas City Royals and Tyler Beede of Vanderbilt University trained.

"For the most part, I commanded the ball pretty well and was able to move the fastball around and get some weak contact from a good-hitting lineup," Lester said.

The former Los Angeles Laker star said that although he wanted to professional baseball team Los Angeles Dodgers, he did not do so as he felt that his fastball was not quite upto it, New York Post reports.

When he's not on, he has enough in his repertoire that he can still hang in the ballgame." At 5-1 in his second season since arriving from Japan, Darvish has become one of the hottest pitchers in the major leagues with lightning speed on his fastball and masterful deceptiveness on his curve ball.

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Aboriginal fastball squads will be heading to Canada's westernmost province this summer to decide national bragging rights.

Our intuition (and the broadcasters we listen to) might tell us that, to decrease the likelihood of the runner scoring on a wild pitch or passed ball, the pitcher increases his fastball frequency.

If, as Ted Williams famously said, "Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports," then the fastball is the most devastating weapon.