Record-height baseball catch dangerous stunt
Q :From how high up might a dropped baseball be caught by someone down below?
A :In 1908, a couple of major league catchers nabbed baseballs tossed from atop the 555-foot Washington Monument , says Jearl Walker in "The Flying Circus of Physics.”
Thirty years later, Cleveland Indians catchers Frankie Pytlak and Hank Helf waited beneath Cleveland's Terminal Tower as balls were dropped from 700 feet up (2...
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