One of the most inspirational players in all of sports, Jim Abbott will be honored with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at ...

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.

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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 ...

When MLB Had a Pitcher with One Hand Jim Abbott made history as the only MLB pitcher to play with one hand, defying expectations at every turn. From his unforgettable debut with the Angels to throwing ...

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 ...

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 ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Flint baseball legend Jim Abbott will be featured in ESPN's documentary 'Southpaw' on Sunday at 9 p.m. Abbott pitched at Flint Central and the University of Michigan before a ten ...

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 ...