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"I get a lot of mail from servicemen who have lost an arm or a leg. I don’t know what to tell them, but I try to answer all their letters."

How a one-armed outfielder became an inspiration to wounded WWII veterans 4 days ago 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 tr...