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 ...

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, ...

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 fact that Jim Abbott was able to have a Major League career, and a relatively successful one at that, is quite remarkable. The highlight of that career came on this day in 1993, when he threw a no ...

Six years after the University of South Dakota formalized the naming and plans for its USD Discovery District, there is still no building built. That’s Jim Abbott’s first goal as he takes the helm of ...