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Show Younq Baseball Player Joins Pals After Losing Arm ?tjUed' "Peewee Baseball Play-Makes Play-Makes Amazing Comeback Try" week? ln an Idaho newspaper this sch 1 1 how a former Mapleton bark v, Y is making a brave come-anrt come-anrt i jinin8' his baseball pals "Playing the game even after 10sjng one arm. Vm , 0y is Lynn Rasmussen. 9- Pett d SOn of Red and L0'8 T'P" i us Rasmussen, whose left arm den iampUtated blowing an acci-'n acci-'n an"1 Which tne aim was severed eekaUtmatic dryer about three to Tri ,a- Tne Rasmussens moved Waho .about 2 yers ago. wording to report of the acci- dent, Lynn was helping his mother as only youngsters can, wash clothes. As he stood near a drier on the automatic machine, a wet blanket suddenly reached out, wrapped round Lynn's left arm and pulled it into the spinning-blades spinning-blades of the drier. It was said that Lynns first reactions were, "Mother I cant play ball." The Rasmussens, according to the story in the newspaper, spent two weeks of agonizing mental PaThis week Lynn demonstrated to them that he could still play ball and joined his pals under supervision super-vision of the recreational director at Boise. ' The story tells how the youngster, young-ster, with a little prodding from his friends, stepped into the batter's bat-ter's box and to his own surprise hit the ball far into centerfield. Then the coach said "Run, don't just stand there," and that was probably the beginning of young Lynn's initiation back into normal life. The fact that his baseball pals took him in and treated him as a regular guy, was the thing which gave him courage to try again. The story stated that young Rasmussen ao longer dons the catcher's mit but -has risen to greater heights. His father has made a special pitching mit so that he can throw the ball off after receiving it from the catcher and who knows, this may be the beginning begin-ning of a baseball career for this brave boy. Young Lynn's picture with that of his baseball team mates and the recreational director, accompanied the story in the Idaho newspaper. |