Charlie Sheen tells the truth about his fastball velocity in ‘Major League’
Actor Charlie Sheen has refuted claims of mound-moving during the making of the ‘Major League’ film franchise.
Actor Charlie Sheen has laughed off claims that the makers of the Major League movie franchise reduced the dimensions of the baseball field to give his character’s pitches an apparent injection of speed.
Appearing on The Rich Eisen Show this week, Sheen joked that he felt “a little bit” insulted by the suggestion.
“Very false!”
“True or false?" Eisen had asked: “Producers for Major League moved the mound up 10 feet to make your fastball appear to go faster.”
“Oh my God, very false!” Sheen replied with a chuckle.
He added: “I probably topped out at 84, 85 [miles per hour], but that was enough to create that, you know, [impression of a pitch travelling at] 98-plus.”
How far does an MLB pitcher have to throw?
According to Major League Baseball regulations, the pitcher’s mound must be positioned 60 feet, six inches away from the batter’s position at home plate.
“So tedious”
In Major League, a film franchise that chronicled the fortunes of a fictionalized version of Cleveland’s MLB franchise, Sheen starred as Ricky Vaughn, a young pitcher recruited out of prison.
Sheen featured alongside actors such as Tom Berenguer and Corbin Bernsen in both 1989’s Major League and the 1994 follow-up, Major League II.
Speaking to Eisen, Sheen revealed that he found the experience of portraying a professional baseball pitcher “amazing” - but also “so tedious”.
“[I needed] ‘anti-inflams’, because I would throw 150 pitches until 3 o’clock in the morning and come back the next day and throw 100 more,” he said. “And there was no… that’s just how the schedule was built.”
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