American baseball catcher Wilbert Robinson tried to claim a record by catching a ball dropped from a plane 525 feet above him.
During Spring Training at Daytona Beach, Fla. in 1915, Robinson agreed to use his old catching skills to snare a baseball dropped 525 feet from an airplane. The stunt went bad when the pilot, Ruth Law, instead dropped a grapefruit, which exploded on impact and left Robinson temporarily believing that he was seriously wounded.