I assume most of you baseball fans have eagerly searched for videos and images from MLB spring training. No matter what you've come across though, there is hardly a better image than the one tweeted out by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.

The man pictured is Daniel "Doc" Jacobs, an Iraq war veteran that lost his leg after an explosion went off under his Humvee in 2006. On Thursday, he was taking ground balls at the Dodgers' open tryout, joining more than 80 other players that were invited to attend the annual event. 

As MLB reports, the Dodgers didn't spot any talent they were willing to sign, but they did happen upon a remarkable story. Corpsman.com explains a bit more of what happened to Jacobs that fateful day seven years ago.

The explosion of a bomb buried in a road in Ramadi, Iraq, killed the Marine driving the Humvee, fatally wounded the vehicle commander and ripped through the body of then-Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class (FMF) Daniel Jacobs.

Jacobs had landed in Iraq just weeks after joining the infantry unit—India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines—when another corpsman couldn’t deploy. Months after that Feb. 25, 2006 blast, doctors amputated Jacobs’ mangled left leg below the knee.

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