[kawhill]

I remember reading in a book years ago written by George Will titled either “Bunts” or “Men at Work” about a pitching coach named Ray, I can’t remember his last name, for the Milwaukee Brewers who said something to the effect that “left-handed people can’t run in a straight line. He thought it was “the gravitational pull on the earth’s axis that got’em” So he would have his left-hand pitchers run sprints along the right field foul line because if he had them run sprints along the left field foul line “they would whip your whole line out of shape”. My mother was left-handed and so is one of sons and my daughter. I threw right but batted left.

[PhillyPhreeper]

I threw right but batted left.

That is unusual. I'm left handed but swing a bat or a golf club right and I don't know why. A little time ago I was pared on the golf course with a young man with an English accent. He swung the club right handed but putted left handed. I asked him about it and he said he had recently taken up golf. When in England he was big in field hockey and a left handed swing was not permitted in field hockey so he had to learn to swing right handed. I learned something that day.