I recently started the seminal baseball book Ball Four, Jim Bouton’s diary of the 1969 season. As the book opens, Bouton is ...

In his first season with the New York Yankees, a heated Jim Abbott confronted then-New York Times reporter Jack Curry over an ...

A new documentary coming to ESPN will give Yankees fans to take a trip down memory lane. “Southpaw – The Life and Legacy of ...

Plus Mets pitcher David Peterson's tips on throwing a shutout and more timely and timeless elements of baseball.

The film depicts a young, reluctant Abbott — who was born without a fully formed right hand — wanting to be treated like any other player but eventually coming to understand his responsibility to a ...

The Futures Game is a great opportunity to evaluate and compare some of the top hitting prospects. Here's who — and what ...

JIM ABBOTT IS sitting at his kitchen table, with his old friend Tim Mead. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they were ...