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 ...

As part of our look back at classic games while we wait for baseball to return, MLB Network aired Jim Abbott's no-hitter on ...

EAST RUTHERFORD − Christian Campusano is a Yankee Kid all the way. His favorite players are Aaron Judge and … Jim Abbott. Wait a minute, Jim Abbott? “I’d love to meet him,” Campusano said with a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...