One-armed baseball player's relentlessness helps him excel on the diamond

Jeremy White became Verbena High School’s baseball coach two years ago. That’s when he met his one-armed left fielder, Tyler Abbott. "I was kind of curious of how it was going to work," White said. "How he was going to be able to do what everyone else does." Abbott lost his right arm in a tractor accident when he was in eighth grade and had his arm amputated just below the shoulder. "We were pushing back some brush, and a tree came over the cab of the tractor and smashed my arm and knocked me off," Abbott said. It took Abbott almost a year to re-learn how to play baseball. In that time, he developed a unique catch-and-throw technique. "I'll field it, and then I'll throw the ball up in the air and sling my glove off, catch the ball and then throw the ball," Abbott said. Abbott's relentless attitude has left a lasting impression on his coaches and teammates. "It's one of those things where you have no room to make any kind of excuses or complain about anything about the day of how things are going," White said.