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Paralyzed Player Drafted By Texas Rangers


With baseball season in full…um…swing, I just had to share this story about Johnathan Taylor. Known as J.T., Taylor played center field for the University of Georgia Bulldogs and dreamed of going pro. Then, during a game against the Florida State on March 6, Taylor and his team’s left fielder, Zach Cone, collided when they both dove for a line drive in the top of the third inning. Taylor fractured two vertibrae (C5 and C6) and bruised his spinal cord. ”JT’s a pretty special kid. There are not too many like JT,” said his coach, David Perno, immediately after the fateful game.

The Texas Rangers thought so, too. Yesterday, the organization drafted Taylor in the 33rd round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

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“There’s No Crying In Baseball”

I recently came across an article about a town in an uproar because a boy at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida with two prosthetic legs was cut from his school’s baseball team (thank you, AOL Newsfeed). Anthony Burruto had both of his legs amputated as a baby, but his father is a Yankees fan (damn right!), so he raised Anthony with a love of baseball and a desire to play. There’s really no reason why being an amputee should keep Burruto off the field if he has the drive and the talent to play at the high school level. After all, Jim Abbott threw a no-hitter while wearing the pinstripes—just one of his many athletic accomplishments—and he was born with only one hand.


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