How Twitter and an amateur speed-pitch booth created one of the unlikeliest professional baseball players in history
During a rain delay at a Colorado Rockies game last month, Nathan Patterson tried his luck at a speed-pitch challenge booth. The first ball he fired reached 90 mph. The next two, 94. On his sixth and final attempt, the screen behind him lit up with an even gaudier number: 96.
Patterson, a 23-year-old software salesman, had barely played organized baseball since his junior year of high school. Yet there he was, a random fan off the street, throwing harder than most major leaguers.
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