ZACK HAMPLE'S CHIEF CLAIM TO FAME is that he has snagged more Major League baseballs—9,475—than anyone on Earth, but another record he grabbed in 2013 is of greater interest to aviation fans: He caught a baseball dropped from a helicopter flying at 1,050 feet. Ouch. Of an earlier attempt, a Boston Globe article reported, "The balls that Hample missed blasted stitched craters into the LeLacheur [Massachusetts] outfield."
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