Amputee College Baseball Player...

[rebel6842]

Does anyone here have anymore info about the East Carolina University baseball player who's a single below-the-knee amputee due to a boating accident a couple of years back? Recently, he got to take an at-bat, and is believed to be the first PWD to appear in a Division I college baseball game.  I only got to see the standing ovation he received at the start of the at-bat on Twitter/X yesterday, and have no clue on how the rest of the at-bat turned out.

I believe this is important because:

-ECU is perhaps the most successful college baseball program never to make the College World Series

-This is TRUE inclusion

Interested in results/other folks' thoughts...

[devogirl]

Have we all forgotten about Jim Abbott? Congenital amputee, played in the major leagues:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Abbott

[rebel6842]

Feb 19, 2024 5:41:08 GMT -5 devogirl said:

Have we all forgotten about Jim Abbott? Congenital amputee, played in the major leagues:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Abbott

No-I should have clarified better.  In baseball, there's a difference colloquially between pitchers (which Abbott was, his career highlight being a no-hitter as a member of the Yankees in 1993) and position players.  And since the designated hitter (pitchers don't have to take at-bats) is now being used at nearly all levels of baseball, it's a near-certainty that the player from ECU is the first PWD to have an at-bat

This doesn't take away from anything Abbott accomplished...