World's Highest Catch

In 1939, San Francisco Seals catcher Joe Sprinz attempted to set a Guinness World Record at that year's World's Fair by catching a baseball which would be dropped from a Goodyear blimp, a good 800 feet above ground. It seems that everyone forgot about a little thing we like to call physics, involving gravity and terminal velocity.

Sprinz missed the first four balls dropped. The got a good angle on the fifth one, and seemed destined to make the catch. It's estimated that by the time the ball hit Sprinz glove, it was traveling around 150 miles an hour. The force of the ball caused his glove to slam into his face, fracturing his jaw and knocking out five teeth in the process.