March 13 in Dodgers History: Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson brags that he could catch a ball dropped from an airplane at spring training (1917)

[adrotate banner=”32″] March 13, 1917 – After hearing that Gabby Street had caught a ball dropped off the Washington Monument in 1908, Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson brags that he could catch a ball dropped from an airplane at spring training, even though he is in his mid-50s and well above his p

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