Eighty-nine years after he performed his final MLB recreation, the Bambino’s legendary presence stays unparalleled in baseball. So let’s contribute to it right this moment by highlighting one in every of his extra wonderful, if additionally missed, feats.
This has nothing to do with any of the Sultan of Swat’s historic homers. As a substitute, let’s watch The Babe catch a fly ball.
Dropped from a whole lot of ft above.
Because the narrator factors out, Ruth risked a fractured cranium if he misjudged one of many plummeting baseballs. However after all, as a result of that is Babe Ruth, he made the seize with relative ease.
On July 22, 1926, Ruth turned the primary particular person to catch a baseball flung from an airplane. The achievement, talked about on this story about Ruth’s influential agent, landed the slugger on the entrance web page of The New York Instances. It’s not sure that this video is from the identical day, however that doesn’t subtract from its awesomeness.
