One-handed wonder
NZPA-Reuter Anaheim, California Jim Abbott, the one-handed baseball pitcher who starred on last year’s United States Olympic team, won his first game as a professional when the California Angels defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 3-2. He allowed just four hits, three walks and two earned runs in six innings on Tuesday as the Angels finally supported him by putting some runs on the scoreboard. California went scoreless in its first two games in the major leagues. Abbott, who was born with his right hand missing, helped the United States team win the gold medal in the Seoul Olympics where baseball was played as a demonstration sport.
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Press, 27 April 1989, Page 38
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