"Bert Robert Shepard (June 20, 1920 \u2013 June 16, 2008) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched in one game for the Washington Senators in 1945 after having had his right leg amputated after his fighter plane was shot down in Germany during World War II while he was serving as a pilot in the Army Air Forces.Milestones: Bert Shephard, July 7, 2008, TIME Magazine, p. 18"@en . . . . . . "Bert Robert Shepard (June 20, 1920 \u2013 June 16, 2008) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched in one game for the Washington Senators in 1945 after having had his right leg amputated after his fighter plane was shot down in Germany during World War II while he was serving as a pilot in the Army Air Forces.Milestones: Bert Shephard, July 7, 2008, TIME Magazine, p. 18"@en . . . . . "Bert Shepard"@en . . . . . . .