Pro Baseball Player Pitches with Diabetes

As long as I can remember, I’ve been a baseball fan.I started swinging a bat and throwing a baseball just about the same time I was diagnosed with type 1 back when I was 5 years old, and for the next decade or so baseball was my world.As I got ol…

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