(This story appears in today’s edition of USA TODAY .) Nick Newell was a young boy when he first met Jim Abbott, the former Major League Baseball pitcher who, like Newell, was born with only one hand. Even then Newell knew it probably wasn’t a particularly memorable encounter for Abbott, though it certainly was for him. “I can only imagine how many one-handed kids he’s met throughout the years,” Newell, 27, tells USA TODAY Sports and MMAjunkie
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Baseball’s Jim Abbott inspired WSOF 7′s one-handed Nick Newell – MMA Junkie