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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Rick Robinson was settling into his new job as the baseball coach at Tennessee-Martin, moving some things around his office, when he came across a few articles that had been written about the previous ...
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 ...