Jim Abbott, a former Major League Baseball pitcher born with only one hand
Among the several no-hitters Staats has announced were Nolan Ryan's record fifth on September 26, 1981 and one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott's September 13, 1993 "no-no" for the Yankees.
He graduated from Flint Central High School in Michigan where he was a stand-out pitcher and quarterback.
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In April 2012, Abbott's autobiography, Imperfect: An Improbable Life (ISBN 0345523253), co-written with Tim Brown, was published by Ballantine Books.
It is the summer destination for such famous people as Jim Abbott (a one-handed major league pitcher famous for throwing a no-hitter for the New York Yankees) and Bob Seger, a singer who sung number 1 song on the Billboard charts, Shakedown, from 1987.
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He led all pitchers in the 1988 Cup in strikeouts (32 in 27 1/3 IP), beating out the likes of Andy Benes, Ben McDonald, Charles Nagy, Jim Abbott, Hideo Nomo and Orlando Hernandez.