Jim Abbott was used to dealing with uncomfortable social situations; in some ways, they were all he’d ever known. As a child who’d been born without a right hand, he had quickly learned that he looked ...
In his first season with the Yankees, a heated Jim Abbott confronted then-New York Times reporter Jack Curry over an article that labeled the pitcher as something he’d never been called before. The ...
NEW YORK — I like the idea, in this Instagram age of carefully curated self-promotion, of sports documentaries like “Southpaw – the Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott.” It’s refreshing to see a film that’s ...
JIM ABBOTT IS sitting at his kitchen table, with his old friend Tim Mead. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they were partners in an extraordinary exercise -- and now, for the first time in decades, ...
No one ever sees a no-hitter coming. Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series came after failing to last two innings in his previous start. Dwight Gooden threw a no-hitter after returning ...
Jim Abbott is 57 years old now, and hasn’t thrown a pitch in a quarter-century, but on this day his voice slightly quivers, realizing the impact he has made in not only baseball, but this world. Once ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI. – Michigan native Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand but pitched in the major leagues for 10 years, will be at Schuler Books on Alpine on Thursday. Abbott will share his ...
A decade removed from his career as a big-league pitcher, Jim Abbott now works as a motivational speaker. He visits Milwaukee Friday to speak at the IndependenceFirst Power Lunch at the Midwest ...
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