Jim Abbott
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"James Anthony Abbott" is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, who played despite having been born without a right hand. He played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels, the New York Yankees, the Chicago White Sox, and the Milwaukee Brewers, from 1989 to 1999.

He graduated from Flint Central High School and grew up in the East Village, Flint/East Village area of Flint, Michigan. While with the University of Michigan, Abbott won the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's best amateur athlete in 1987 and won a gold medal in the demonstration event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was drafted in the first round of the 1988 Major League Baseball Draft and reached the Majors the next year. He threw a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993. Abbott retired with a career record of 87 Win (baseball)/wins and 108 losses, with a 4.25 earned run average.

He currently works as a motivational speaker. Abbott also appeared in the Boy Meets World episode "Class Preunion."

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