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Luke Terry isn’t the first baseball player who only has the use of one arm — but he may be the first who plays catcher. Terry, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Cornerville Middle School in Lewisburg, TN, had his right arm amputated at 19 months due to a bacterial infection. But it never stopped him from playing baseball when he was old enough.
His mother, Dana Terry, said that her son flatlined on the operating table three times before he was two years old. The Tennessean:
He refused to give in even then.