One-armed baseball catcher determined to succeed

(CNN/RNN) – A teenage baseball player in Tennessee is getting a lot of attention after a video of him on Twitter went viral recently.

The reason – 15-year-old Luke Terry is playing the game with his left arm only.

When he was 19 months old, Terry contracted E. coli. Terry’s doctors were forced to amputate his right arm after the bacteria attacked it.

Dana Terry, Luke Terry’s mother, told The Tennessean that her son flatlined three times while undergoing operations.

But Luke made it through, and now he’s one of the top players for his team.

He even threw the first pitch at an Atlanta Braves game last year.

“He’s amazing,” Logan Courtemanche, a teammate, told The Tennessean. “He’s as quick as anyone around. He’s real quick.”

Millions have watched the video, including baseball legends Deion Sanders and Chipper Jones.

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