babe ruth

The Babe really could do it all. When he wasn't calling homers and eating his height in hot dogs, he also was apparently setting world records for catching baseballs dropped from planes. According to this article from the New York Times dated July 22, 1926, the Babe did something no one had ever done before. Here's the full transcription of the article: "Garden City, L.I. July 22. --Babe Ruth established another world record this afternoon--by catching a baseball dropped from an airplane. No one had ever done this before. Ruth was at Mitchel Field at noon in an army uniform. The plane, in which was Captain H. McClelland, Post Adjutant, took off. When it reached a height of 1,000 feet ...