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Is 851 meters per hour as fast as a Knuckleball (baseball)?

It's about one-one-hundred-fiftieth as fast as a Knuckleball (baseball)
The speed of a Knuckleball (baseball) is about 110,000 meters per hour.
(a.k.a. knuckler, a.k.a. floater, a.k.a. dancer, a.k.a. butterfly ball) (major league average)
The average speed of major league knuckleball pitch is 110,000 meters per hour. Eddie Cicotte, who was later implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal, is credited with developing the pitch ca. 1906.
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