Glen Gorbous
Glen Edward Gorbous was a Canadian professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Redlegs, in early 1955, and the Philadelphia Phillies, from mid-1955 to May, 1957.
Gorbous holds the current world record for longest throw of a baseball, 135.89m. The feat took place on August 1, 1957, while he was playing for the Omaha Cardinals of the American Association. In an exhibition he was given a six-step running start and threw the ball from the far right field corner of the stadium to the far left field corner.
