Man with spinal cord injury throws first pitch at Brewers game – Fox11online.com

by Gabrielle Mays, FOX 11 News

Lucas Lindner near the dugout at Sunday, Aug. 13 Brewers game. (Photo courtesy Scott Paulus with Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club)

MILWAUKEE (WLUK) -- Sunday marked another milestone for a Fox Valley man as he threw the first pitch at Sunday's Brewers game.

With a baseball in Lucas Lindner's right hand, he moved his arm back and threw the ball right into the catcher's mitt with ease.

The crowd cheered and Lindner couldn't help but smile.

He suffered from a severe spinal cord injury after he crashed his truck last year. The crash left him paralyzed from the chest down.

Thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment called AST-OPC1, Lindner gained mobility in his arms, hands and fingers.

The procedure took place at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

FOX 11 did a story on Lindner last year.

"Throwing out the first pitch at a Major League game is not something I could have imagined a year ago. I want to show everyone that there is hope that spinal cord injury patients can regain function. I am looking forward to going back to school, pursuing my dream of working in the IT field and living independently someday," Lindner said to Asterias Biotherapeutics.

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