District Dispatch Volume 22 • Number 3 • December 2011
District Dispatch Volume 22 • Number 3 • December 2011 Rotary International District 6310 • Allan Nietzke, Governor 2011 - 2012 Welcome Jim Abbott District 6310 is pleased year, and showing up there, to welcome, at its spring and how far off anything like conference, Jim Abbott, this would have seemed at that Motivational Speaker and point,” Abbott said of learn- Professional Baseball Player. ing the news. “I’m incredibly James Anthony Abbott, honored.” born September 19, 1967 in Coaches at UofM hatched Flint, Michigan, is a for- the idea of retiring his number mer Major League Baseball during the building of the pitcher who is best known for Wilpon Baseball and Softball playing despite having been Complex as a way to share born without a right hand. the programs history. Maloney said Abbott’s addition He played for the California Angels, the New York to the group was a “no brainer.” “You have to be very Yankees, the Chicago White Sox, and the Milwaukee selective and it’s a difficult decision, but to me, this one Brewers, from 1989 to 1999. was not very hard.” Maloney said. “Not only with the He graduated from Flint Central High School and success he had at Michigan, but more importantly, on grew up in the East Village area of Flint, Michigan. top of all that, his humility and how’s he’s represented Rich Maloney, a college shortstop and team captain at the university.” The university retired Abbott’s No. Western Michigan University, called Abbott, a prom- 31 in ceremony, April 18. 2009, before the Wolverines’ ising high schooler from Flint, hoping to woo him to home game against Michigan State.
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