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1983
Bob Horner agrees to a 4-year contract with the Atlanta Braves that will pay him up to $6 million, including $400,000 in bonuses if he keeps his weight below 215 pounds.
That would be one expensive trip through the driv-thru if he was hovering around 214.
1885
The New York Clipper reports that Paul Hines cancels his Washington Monument ball-drop exhibition. "The experiment of trying to catch a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument has proved to be a failure. The ball reaches the ground with such great speed that it indents the ground almost as much as a heavy cannon ball would dropped from a proportionate height. The fact is that, independently of the difficulty of judging the ball balling from such a height, the speed is too great to allow of any one holding it when it nears the ground."
Dey shore did write diff-er-ent-lee in da newspaper in that thar 19th cent-ure-ee.
Seriously, how hard would it be to catch a baseball dropped from the top of this?
Don't answer that. I ain't volunteering to try.
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