At 92 years of age, we’ll be lucky if we’re able to watch a baseball game on television (or virtual reality or whatever blasted contraption that’ll be available then) let alone jog up to the mound at one and fire in a first pitch like you’re a hotshot high school hurling prospect who consumes eight raw eggs and five gallons of a milk for breakfast every morning.

This is why the former United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class and World War II combat veteran Burke Waldron, 92 years young — who does precisely what we detailed in the previous paragraph in the following video in Seattle this past weekend — not only makes us feel inferior, but leaves us with no qualms about proudly calling what his generation has been famously slugged as: the greatest.

Beginning his service in Pearl Harbor in 1943, the Washington state native was on a troopship as part of the invasion of the Makin Islands, and was also a member of the ground forces in the Battle of Saipan, one of the landmark victories in the Pacific commanded by Lieutenant General Holland Smith.

See the little tag on the video, bottom right? It says MLB.com? The official website of Major League Baseball?

Did you know you could grab some cool official MLB gear through the MLB Shop and receive a 15% discount if you’re a military veteran? All you have to do is click here and verify your status by hitting the Troop ID button.