Who Is The Fastest Baseball Player To Run From Home Plate To First Base?

This is a difficult one to answer since there are no officially recorded times for speed between home plate and first base.

There are a number of forums and websites that claim that Mickey Mantle covered the distance in a record 3.1 seconds, so this might be the answer you are looking for.

The time from home plate to first base isn't a stat that is usually recorded by the major league, so any answer can only be purely subjective... An opinion rather than a fact.

On that basis, then, there are a number of possible contenders for speediest batsman:

Fastest batsman from home to first base

Fleetest of foot is probably Cool Papa Bell, but he never played in the major league. Without a doubt, though, the guy could run. And fast.

Among the other candidates for being quick off the mark to first are:

• Mickey Mantle
• Ty Cobb
• Tris Speaker
• Ricky Henderson
• Joe Morgan.

Left-hander Ichiro (Ichiro Suzuki) probably has a pretty strong claim in major league baseball to being fastest between home and first base.

And according to analyst Joseph DelGrippo, Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees also gives the other a run for their money.

For the benefit of non-baseball fans, the distance between home and first is 90 feet. Most players should be able to cover it in around four seconds.