I know it’s off topic, but browsing on the Sports Illustrated website, I came across these two photos of pitchers in motion: Dwight Gooden in 1985, and Randy Johnson in 1996.
The human arm isn’t supposed to do that, is it? Not the thousands of times a professional pitcher throws toward home.
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