A camper takes part in the NubAbility All Sports Camp.(NubAbility / NubAbility)

Major League Baseball players are some of the most gifted athletes in the world.

In this edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson pays homage to this summer’s NubAbility Camp in Du Quoin by looking at some of baseball’s limb-different players over the years.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard Pete Peterson, co-author, with his son Stephen, of The Slide: Leyland, Bonds and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.