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 ...
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.
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.
Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. In his first season with the Yankees, a heated Jim Abbott ...
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 ...
A no-hitter. Do you mention it? Do you blurt something out? Or do you stay silent? If you stay silent, is it diminishing the accomplishment? Shouldn't you be louder than normal? Or should everyone ...
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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 ...
Whittier College’s Class of 2026 graduates are celebrated, sent off with a message from iconic baseball player’s message to “find your own way do things” when perceived challenges get in the way.