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Can a major league baseball player throw a ball in the air from one end of my hallway to the other?

Saturday, April 4th, 2009
daneel12 asked:


Please help me settle an office bet. The hallway outside my office is 133.5 feet long, and the ceiling is 8 feet high. Can a major league baseball player (specifically, Ivan Rodriguez, the catcher for the Detroit Tigers) throw a ball and hit the wall at the other end of the hallway without it bouncing on the ground first? I say yes, and have an expensive bottle of irish whiskey riding on it. Any help you can provide with proving me right (I hope) would be much appreciated.

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