Tribune Column ; False Leg Never Slows Agnew, On Field or in Life

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Jim Agnew was a better-than-average shortstop when he graduated from New Franklin High School in 1942, and at 6 feet, 2 inches tall, with wide shoulders and long arms, he was a better than average high school basketball player, as well.

Then came service in World War II. In January 1945, he was seriously wounded in the Hartz Mountains in northeast France near the German border. He took shrapnel in the back and both legs and lost his right leg below the knee.

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Tribune Column ; False Leg Never Slows Agnew, On Field or in Life

So what is the future for a shortstop with one leg? Jim Agnew became a pitcher. The arm still worked just fine.

Jim Agnew also became a lot more - a farmer, an orchard keeper, the Howard County collector for 32 years, a...

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