Ebook: Imperfect: an improbable life
Author: Abbott Jim, Brown Tim
- Tags: Athletes with disabilities, Athletes with disabilities--United States, Baseball players, Baseball players--United States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs, BODY MIND & SPIRIT--Inspiration & Personal Growth, Pitchers (Baseball), Pitchers (Baseball)--United States, SPORTS & RECREATION--Baseball--General, Biography, Electronic books, Abbott Jim -- 1967-, Baseball players -- United States -- Biography, Pitchers (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography, Athletes with disabilities -- United States --
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
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On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big league ace retraces his remarkable journey.
Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott as a boy dreamed of being a great athlete. Raised in Flint, Michigan, by parents who saw in his condition not a disability but an extraordinary opportunity, Jim became a two-sport standout in high school, then an ace pitcher for the University of Michigan.
But his journey was only beginning.
As a nineteen-year-old, Jim beat the vaunted Cuban National Team. By twenty-one, he'd won the gold medal game at the 1988 Olympics and--without spending a day in the minor leagues--cracked the starting rotation of the California Angels. In 1991, he would finish third in the...