Sometimes we do get it right as a people. This one is as good as I have seen for a bit for a professional sports team.


Texas Rangers made the classiest gesture of the First-Year Player Draft on Wednesday by selecting Georgia outfielder Johnathan Taylor, who was left partially paralyzed by a collision during a game earlier this season. The Rangers selected Taylor with the 1,014th overall pick in the 33rd round.

Taylor, a junior center fielder, was left partially paralyzed after a collision with left fielder Zach Cone during a game March 6 against Florida State. Coincidentally, Texas also picked Cone with the 37th selection of the draft. Taylor, 21, suffered injuries to the C5 and C6 vertebrae in his neck and has been confined to a wheelchair since the injury. But he has been making progress during rehab, regaining partial use of his hands and doing daily exercises to strengthen the muscles in his arms and hands. His doctor at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta has said the majority of people with Taylor's injury never walk again. But Taylor told ESPN.com last month that his goal remains to walk and someday return to the diamond.

"That's my determination," Taylor said on May 14. "Right now, that's my goal -- to get back on the field and play baseball because that's what I care most about. But I'm not worrying about long-term."

Courtesy of FOXSports.com

Nice.

True thing.

About 7 years ago, my niece fell 35 feet into dry Siebert Creek out toward PA. Her back doc said she wouldn't walk again. She told me she would and she did. Graduated with her high school class and UW and is finishing up her tour with the Peace Corp in Africa. She's tough and is one of my personal heroes. Determination and belief in your self can be amazing things.
I hope it works out for this kid.