He should have taken up bowling
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:33 am
Or gone out for the chess team.
Florida High School Baseball Team Cuts Legless Player
A Florida high school baseball team's decision to cut a double-amputee
player from the squad had critics crying foul.
Pitcher Anthony Burruto -- who has prosthetic legs, can throw an 80-mph
fastball and was featured on the cover of ESPN the Magazine -- was cut
after he tried out for Dr. Phillips High School varsity team.
Coach Mike Bradley's main concern about Burroto was him trying to field
bunts off the pitcher's mound, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
"He's not looking at him as an athlete. He was looking at him like he's a
disabled person," Anthony's mom, Diane Burroto, told the paper.
Dennis Rasmussen, who pitched in the majors for 12 seasons, said simply,
"This decision was wrong."
"You took away the hopes and dreams that Anthony's been hanging onto,"
Rasmussen, a friend of Burruto's family, told the Orlando Sentinel. "He
crushed a young man with no apparent reason."
But Principal Gene Trochinski stands by the coach's decision.
"I think the coaches made a determination of who could contribute to the
team this year and not that Anthony couldn't, but other kids could at a
higher level," he told MyFoxOrlando.com.
Anthony had his legs amputated as a baby because he was born without a
shinbone in his left leg and without a fibula in his right one.
Despite the setback, he doesn't make any excuses for being cut.
"I want to earn my position on the team. I want him to say I'm good enough
to play," he told the paper.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/02/1 ... ed-player/
Everyone knows that a pitcher has to field bunts.
It's critically important to success of a high school ball team.
Shit, are you going to have the opposition lay down bunts - and watch them leg 'em into doubles all day long?
Maybe Anthony can run wind sprints (or do agility drills until he pukes) for a year until next season's tryouts.
Or if he's got such a good arm, maybe he can learn to throw the discus.
Good luck, Anthony!
Florida High School Baseball Team Cuts Legless Player
A Florida high school baseball team's decision to cut a double-amputee
player from the squad had critics crying foul.
Pitcher Anthony Burruto -- who has prosthetic legs, can throw an 80-mph
fastball and was featured on the cover of ESPN the Magazine -- was cut
after he tried out for Dr. Phillips High School varsity team.
Coach Mike Bradley's main concern about Burroto was him trying to field
bunts off the pitcher's mound, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
"He's not looking at him as an athlete. He was looking at him like he's a
disabled person," Anthony's mom, Diane Burroto, told the paper.
Dennis Rasmussen, who pitched in the majors for 12 seasons, said simply,
"This decision was wrong."
"You took away the hopes and dreams that Anthony's been hanging onto,"
Rasmussen, a friend of Burruto's family, told the Orlando Sentinel. "He
crushed a young man with no apparent reason."
But Principal Gene Trochinski stands by the coach's decision.
"I think the coaches made a determination of who could contribute to the
team this year and not that Anthony couldn't, but other kids could at a
higher level," he told MyFoxOrlando.com.
Anthony had his legs amputated as a baby because he was born without a
shinbone in his left leg and without a fibula in his right one.
Despite the setback, he doesn't make any excuses for being cut.
"I want to earn my position on the team. I want him to say I'm good enough
to play," he told the paper.
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/02/1 ... ed-player/
Everyone knows that a pitcher has to field bunts.
It's critically important to success of a high school ball team.
Shit, are you going to have the opposition lay down bunts - and watch them leg 'em into doubles all day long?
Maybe Anthony can run wind sprints (or do agility drills until he pukes) for a year until next season's tryouts.
Or if he's got such a good arm, maybe he can learn to throw the discus.
Good luck, Anthony!
