Monty F. P. Stratton

(1912-1982) lived in Omaha. Professional baseball player and farmer, best known for inspiring award-winning movie The Stratton Story (MGM, 1949), starring actor James Stewart, he pitched fulltime in the major leagues from 1936 to 1938 with the Chicago White Sox, lost his right leg as a result of a hunting accident in late 1938, then pitched from 1946 to 1950 in the minor leagues in Texas, and had a winning record; previously played for Omaha in the Western League in 1934. Consult Omaha Sunday World Herald Magazine, June 5, 1949, pp. C-14, C-15 and New York Times obituary, September 30, 1982, p. B-18 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 1 (1998) 768-770.

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