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Greensboro woman born without right hand plays in professional baseball league
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Greensboro's Brittany Apgar played for the Los Angeles Queens in the inaugural season of the Women's Professional Baseball League this summer, and she worked with Chrysta Irolla to develop a prosthetic to help her bat safely at the pro level. Video courtesy of the Hospital for Special Surgery.
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Brittany Apgar tries out holding a bat while wearing her new prosthetic.
Photo courtesy of New York's Hospital for Special Surgery
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Photo courtesy of New York's Hospital for Special Surgery
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Chrysta Irolla, the Director of Prosthetics and Orthotics at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, works with professional women's baseball player Brittany Apgar.
Photo Courtesy of Hospital for Special Surgery
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Caroline Wills is a sportswriter for the Winston-Salem Journal and Greensboro News & Record, primarily covering college and high school sports. She is a 2025 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and first worked as an intern for the N&R (2024) and Hickory Daily Record (2023).
Why I Cover This Beat: I cover sports in order to tell the stories beyond the court and field that teach people lessons about the human experience. My reporting focuses on relatable storytelling and answering the pressing questions readers have about the sports they watch on TV or sign their child up for.
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Brittany Apgar tries out holding a bat while wearing her new prosthetic.
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Chrysta Irolla, the Director of Prosthetics and Orthotics at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, works with professional women's baseball player Brittany Apgar.
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Brittany Apgar practices her swing while wearing a new prosthetic to help her safely bat in the WPBL.
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