The MLB pitcher Monty Franklin Pierce Stratton nicknamed "Gander" was written about in "the Stratton Story".
 He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's "The Stratton Story", a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. 
Monty Franklin Pierce Stratton (May 21, 1912  September 29, 1982), nicknamed "Gander" for a trick pitch he developed), was a Major League Baseball pitcher. 
