“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.
