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How a one-armed outfielder became an inspiration to wounded WWII veterans
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Pete Gray, the St. Louis Browns one-armed outfielder, batting at Yankee Stadium in May 1945. (Harry Harris/AP)
“I can’t remember when I haven’t had an ambition to be a ballplayer,” Pete Gray told Yank, The Army Weekly in 1945. “Being a big-leaguer is just something I dreamed of.”
While a common sentiment among many at the time, for Gray, born Peter Wyshner, the path to Major League Baseball proved to be even more difficult.
At age six, while hitching a ride home on a grocer’s delivery truck, Gray slipped off and his right arm was crushed by the truck’s wheel. Gray was rushed to the hospital, where his arm was amputated from the elbow down. ....

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