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fastball

type of pitch in baseball
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fastball

Summary

fastball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (242 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fastball's subclass of is recorded as pitch[2].
  • fastball's Commons category is recorded as Fastballs[3].
  • fastball's sport is recorded as baseball[4].
  • fastball's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02d1l3[5].
  • fastball's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as sports/fastball[6].
  • fastball's different from is recorded as Speedball[7].
  • fastball's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00013809n[8].
  • fastball's KBpedia ID is recorded as BaseballPitch-Fastball[9].
  • fastball's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 00109001-n[10].

Why It Matters

fastball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (242 views/month).[1] fastball has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] fastball is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). fastball. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fastball-q1140647
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fastball-q1140647_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fastball}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fastball-q1140647}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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