
Finishing Strong: Parker Byrd’s Season of Grit
Parker Byrd, making history as the first NCAA Division I baseball player to compete with a prosthetic leg, proving the season’s greatest wins aren’t always on the scoreboard. By Rick Bontkowski As fall rolls in, the crack of the bat grows rarer, stadium lights dim earlier, and another baseball season heads toward its close. It’s a time when players reflect on the year behind them, what they’ve overcome, what they’ve achieved,





