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 ...

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 ...

Former New York Yankees starting pitcher Jim Abbott was back at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, throwing out the ceremonial pitch before the series opener between the Yankees and Seattle Mariners.

I’ll sum it up first. If this film, which far transcends just sports, doesn’t get a Sports Emmy, the Emmy is meaningless. One of my Flint Saint Michael High School classmates, Steve, the best athlete ...

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.

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 ...