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Friday, June 20, 2008
In all seriousness, Bert Shepard, along with Elmer Gedeon, Jake Jones, Phil Marchildon, and Jerry Coleman, among many others, are among my heroes…
On his way back from a strafing run about 70 miles northwest of Berlin, Shepard heard radio chatter warning of enemy fire. Flying low, just above a clump of trees, he felt the first shot hit his right foot—“like a sledgehammer,” he said later—and the plane soon crashed into a field.
Shepard woke up in a German hospital, where doctors had amputated his right leg several inches below the knee and treated a serious head wound.
“I pull the sheet back and there’s the leg,” he told The Times in 1995. “I looked up at them and said, ‘Thank you for saving my life.’ “
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This story was too good to leave with zero comments: Kudos to Griffith. I wonder if any of today's owners would give a wounded Iraq veteran the same kind of tryout. OTOH, this does seem like a weird circumstance - He was signed to the team, but he pitched batting practice and exhibition games? Did they not have roster limits then?
When soldiers started coming back in 1945 and they had been on the big league roster when they left, they were guaranteed a spot on the big league roster when they returned. The 1945 World Series was played without any roster limits. Clyde McCullough appeared in the World Series for the Cubs despite not playing at all in the regular season.
Shepard was by all accounts quite a guy.
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