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TIL that Jim Abbott, a Major League Baseball pitcher for 10 years, not only won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, but also pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993 and was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007, all while only having one hand.

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