 Got something important here, finally. You know, it's 36 minutes into the show, finally something worthwhile. On this date of 1926, Babe Ruth proved that he could catch a baseball in a stunt at Mitchell Field in New River, York. Ruth, who was a private in the National Guard, caught a baseball that was dropped from an airplane. All right, the plane was 250 feet in the air and traveled at about 100 miles per hour. And as the cowhide hit the leather, Babe Ruth had this to say. Ah!