Zoe Wood recently hit her first homerun(全垒打) not once but twice in the same game. This girl can catch, hit, and play the field. She’s so good, and people don’t even notice the things that make her different from her other teammates.
For one thing, Zoe is the only girl on her team. Another fact that sets her apart is her limb(肢) difference. She was born without all of the fingers on her left hand.
Zoe started playing baseball at a very young age, and her hand never caused any problems. She learned to accommodate her difference early on, holding the glove in a way that gives her control of the ball even without the use of fingers.
“We just treated her like everyone else. We never let her difference get in her way at all. Zoe has accommodated to baseball playing,” said her father, Jeff.
Zoe says she runs into kids who are curious about her hand, but she simply tells them she was born with the difference. Once they see what she can do on the field, they quickly see her as the strong, talented player. In fact, it’s her gender(性别) that surprises people more than her limb difference.
“I think they’re surprised that I’m playing,” she said. “No one else is really playing as a girl.”
Zoe tells us there’s nothing we can’t do, even if the equipment(装备) we were born with doesn’t look exactly like everyone else’s. We can’t wait to support her when she achieves her dream of being the first woman to play for the major leagues!
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