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Former one-handed Michigan star baseball pitcher Jim Abbott had a decorated career in both Ann Arbor and in the MLB. Abbott, a Flint native, pitched a no-hitter for the New York Yankees and finished ...

Three decades have done nothing to dim the exhilaration Jim Abbott felt when the final out of his no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians was recorded on that overcast, drizzly late-summer afternoon ...