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Professional baseball player Pete Gray poses for a promotional photo, circa 1946.
Credit: Courtesy the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1945, Pete Gray (1915-2002) of Nanticoke, PA, became Major League Baseball's first and only one-armed baseball player. Gray played one season with the St. Louis Browns of the American League. Born without a right hand, pitcher Jim Abbott would play in the Majors from 1989-1999.