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 ...

The ESPN E60 film about the Yankees pitcher who threw a no-hitter will be honored Sunday in Los Angeles, marking the sports ...

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.

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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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, ...

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