Big play by Jim Abbott.

Two-run single for Abbott.

What a moment for Jim Abbott.

The crowd with Jim Abbott every pitch of the way.

The last three...

Jim Abbott pitched in the major league throughout the 90s.

It was improbable to say the least because there's a lot more to a story.

Years before he was a major league pitcher, Jim Abbott was a regular kid in Flint, Michigan.

It was an elementary school that he started to develop a real discomfort with being different.

I remember instances of recoil from kids.

They recoiled because they saw his birth defect.

Jim's right arm ended at his wrist,

so he was missing one hand. Some kids teased him. Back when he still

used a prosthesis, they called him Captain Hook. When he could, Jim hit his right arm by burrowing

it into his pocket.

There were many moments of simple frustration.

You know, I was in a classroom coloring something,

and so I was writing with my left hand

and trying to hold the paper on the desk with this prosthesis and it ripped the

paper and I had worked really hard on it and then all of a sudden it was torn.

Art was difficult but he loved to throw a rubber ball against a wall for hours.

His dad taught him to quickly take off and put on his baseball glove

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