Pitcher loses leg in hunting accident

Two weeks after the amputation of most of his right leg, Monty Stratton was released from the hospital on Dec. 13, 1938. Even though the lanky farmboy from Celeste had been blessed with a blazing fast ball, he never dreamed someone would pay him a man’s wages for playing a boy’s sport. As much as he hated to leave home, money was too tight during the Depression for him to turn down the princely…