Thursday, September 4, 2008

This Day in Baseball

15 years ago today Jim Abbott threw a no-hitter when his Yankees beat the Indians 4-0!  An amazing athlete who was born with only one hand!.  The ability to throw a pitch, then put his glove on, and then field his position.  The Indian team he beat was a few years away from being great but it did have Manny and Belle.  Pretty decent team to no hit.

Anyway Abbott played 10 years and had a career record of 87 - 108.  Amazing stats was that he had 21 career at bats and had 2 hits.  Played in 263 games and only committed 9 errors! And a .976 career fielding percentage.  Impressive!

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