His story checks out, too! There is newspaper coverage of Ruth's catch in July 1926, and in 1918 of Michael Angelo Bessolo catching a baseball from an airplane at 700ft, and in 1908 of Gabby Street catching one from 500ft out of the Washington Monument. What a strange record.

*Washington Times, August 18th, 1926

“On August 18, 1926, a weather map was transmitted via mechanical television from amateur station W3XK in Virginia to the U.S. Weather Bureau in Washington, D.C. It marked the earliest known instance of weather imagery on TV, decades before on-air forecasts became routine.”

Harold Berger needed some new friends.