"Pete Gray lost his arm in a childhood accident; he thought everybody was against him," Gomez said.

"The worst thing that happened to our ballclub in 1945, which we should have won the pennant, was Pete Gray," he said.

He apparently derived pleasure in tormenting teammate Pete Gray, who had only one arm.

During the latter year, they employed Pete Gray, an outfielder who, despite having only one arm, had become a capable minor league player.

One who thinks Abbott can do it is Pete Gray, a man who speaks with authority.

Pete Gray, the only one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, having lost his right arm in a childhood accident.

"I didn't grow up wanting to be another Pete Gray," said Abbott.

With all that, he is not pleased when, for example, people have come to him to autograph a baseball that Pete Gray had signed.

Pete Gray played center field for the 1945 St. Louis Browns though he had lost an arm while a youngster.

Only the legendary Pete Gray could catch a fly ball and throw a batter out at home with the same hand.