Nate Winters Is a Real Life Kirby Kyle

I was going through some of the stories at Fanhouse and came across a headline that was hard to scan past: “Florida H.S. Pitcher Overcomes Loss of Leg to Start Again.” Naturally I was hooked and had to read further about this legless pitcher. Turns out it’s about Nate Winters, a 16-year-old junior at Winter Park High School in Florida, who pitched for his school’s varsity baseball team on Monday. What made it so special is that Winters had his left leg shredded in a boating accident 20 months ago and he now has to use a prosthetic leg. Incredibly enough, after overcoming an initially embarrassing return to baseball, Winters was able to throw 80mph in his game Monday — a one-hitter over four and a third. Winters’ story is incredible when you read how much he overcame to get to this point. His story is almost as good as Kirby Kyle’s. Too bad the only version of the Kirby Kyle story from Radio Days I could find was dubbed over in Italian, but if you stick with it you’ll get the idea.

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Florida H.S. Pitcher Overcomes Loss of Leg to Start Again [Fanhouse]