The one-armed outfielder for the St. Louis Browns, the poster boy for baseball during World War II, passed away in 2002.
Although said to be something of a curmudgeon, he was turned lovable in A Winner Never Quits, a pretty poor made-for-TV movie featuring Keith Carradine as the ballplayer, Mare Winningham as the obligatory love interest, Dennis Weaver and Fionula Flanigan as his “Litvak” parents, and Huckleberry Hound, I mean Huckleberry Fox (no, really, that’s the name. What the hell where his parents thinking?), as the kid who melts Gray’s heart. (Icch).
The Amazon Report on Pete Gray:
One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream
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