The farthest throw of a Guinness World Records book is 21.876 m (71 ft 9.25 in), and was achieved by Christopher Watson (Canada) at Notre Dame Collegiate in High River, Alberta, Canada, on 14 April 2018.

Walter Frederick Morrison and his future wife Lucile had fun tossing a popcorn can lid after a Thanksgiving Day dinner in 1937.

According to the Web sites of both the Connecticut state government and the Greater New Haven Convention and Visitors Bureau, students invented the frisbee at Yale in 1920. Longtime New Haven residents interviewed said Yalies began the pastime by throwing around empty pie tins from Bridgeport’s Frisbie Pie Company.

Long Balls: The longest shots in sports

• 445 Ft 10 In (135.9m) – Baseball Throw.
• 575 Ft (175.3m) – Baseball Hit.
• 930.04 Ft (283.5m) – Archery.
• 1653 Ft (503.8m) – Golf.
• 72 Ft 9 in (22.21m) – Shot Put.
• 222 Ft 7 in (67.88m) – Discus Throw.
• 259 Ft 6 in (79.13m) – Hammer Throw.
• 278 Ft 2 in (84.81m) – Javelin.

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Assuming the first of the two the average human can throw a ball approximately 15 metres (49.213 feet) in the air. In the latter the average person could throw a ball around 60 mp/h (37.3km/h).

Google tells me that a person can throw a golf ball anywhere from 60-100 yards. My attempt to throw a golf ball today fell in the average range. The ball landed just shy of the 100 yard marker with no roll.

The ridges of a golf ball will only help keep the ball in the air longer if the ball is spinning, so if you threw a perfect knuckle ball with the golf ball, the baseball could be thrown farther, maybe.

Without significant practice, your average person would be lucky to throw a baseball over 50 mph. For trained players, the average pitching velocity ranges between 40-50 mph among young players around 9 or 10, between 55-75 mph between 10 and 17, to an average of 80 mph for 18-year-olds and above.

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