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 ...

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, ...

Abbott's 119-pitch, three-strikeout, five-walk gem on Sept. 4, 1993, was one of baseball's most improbable no-hitters, and ...

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 ...