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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 ...

Mike Farrell is 40 and grew up near Toronto, a combination that made the Blue Jays’ back-to-back World Series championships of 1992 and ’93 a foundational sports experience. It also made him “a bit of ...

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.

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 ...

Yankee Stadium has seen a plethora of legends over the franchise's storied history, but few have left a legacy as unique as Jim Abbott's. On September 4, 1993, the pitcher, who was born without a ...

The odds are stacked against anyone who aspires to become a professional athlete. Let’s take America’s most historic sport as an example. Only 9.5% of high school baseball players reach the collegiate ...

All Jim Abbott ever wanted was to be viewed like any other baseball player. Instead, the Flint native, who was born without a right hand, became an icon for others faced with the same disability.

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, ...

Three decades have done nothing to dim the exhilaration Jim Abbott felt when the final out of his no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians was recorded on that overcast, drizzly late-summer afternoon ...