Long before the Paralympic Games began, a heroic baseball pitcher from tiny Dana, Indiana, showed Americans what people with disabilities can accomplish. The 2024 Paralympic Summer Games ended Sunday ...

Robert Earl “Bert” Shepard, the native of Dana, who lost part of his right leg during an air mission over Germany during World War II but ended up pitching in the major leagues, died last Monday at a ...

Everyone remembers the MLB career of Pete Gray, an outfielder with only one arm. However, he was not the only handicapped player during World War Two, as Bert Shepard tried out as a pitcher for the ...

When he first heard a baseball game on his grandmother’s radio, Bert Shepard, who died on June 16 at age 87, knew he’d found his passion. As a teen, the Indiana native traveled across the country, ...

Bert Shepard, a left-handed pitcher who lost part of his right leg in World War II but went on to play one game in the major leagues, has died. He was 87. Shepard died in his sleep Monday at a nursing ...

Between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5, 1945, the Washington Senators played five consecutive double-headers. In a normal season, a scheduling burden of that magnitude wouldn’t have mattered much to the lowly ...

Bert Shepard, a World War II fighter pilot who lost his right leg when he was shot down over Germany but went on to pitch for the 1945 Washington Senators, becoming an inspiration for grievously ...

Bert Shepard was the only person with only one leg to play major league baseball. He later spent parts of two seasons playing semi-professional baseball in Williston, N.D. On March 29, 1945, Shepard ...

Between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5, 1945, the Washington Senators played five consecutive double headers. In a normal season, a scheduling burden of that magnitude wouldn’t have mattered much to the lowly ...

It has been speculated that a person with only one leg was the best baseball pitcher in North Dakota in 1947. On Aug. 7, Bert Shepard, the ace hurler of the Williston, N.D., semi-pro team, threw a ...

In this 2005 file photo, Bert Shepard, a left-handed pitcher who lost part of his right leg in World War II but went on to play one game in the major leagues, poses at his home in Hesperia, Calif.