A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 TV movie based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.
In later years, Martin still held a grudge against one-armed outfielder Pete Gray, who was a teammate in 1945.
The 1986 television-movie A Winner Never Quits, starring Keith Carradine and Mare Winningham; and the publication of Gray's biography, One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream written by William C. Kashatus, published in 1995 by McFarland & Company, renewed public interest in Gray.
Pete Gray (1915–2002), one-armed Major League baseball player
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