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, ...

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.

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 ...