It is Spring Training time, but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been plenty of baseball to happen a year ago this week...
This week in 1945, Bert Shepard, who had lost a foot in World War II, tried out for the Washington Senators. He made the team, but would only pitch in one game, allowing 1 run in 5.1 innings. I remember him because of an incident that happened during a spring game the following year, when he lost his (prosthetic) foot and kicked it into center field. I remember reading an interview with him talking about how his teammates couldn't stop laughing and how the players (and fans) that were unaware he was missing a foot were horrified.