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As a promotional stunt at a baseball game in 1939 catcher Joe Sprinz tried to catch a baseball dropped from 1,200 feet in the air. He said he could see the ball all the way down, but somehow instead of catching it in his mitt, it hit him in the face, cracking his jaw in 12 places.

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