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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.legal
Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness
Message-ID: <272@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 08:09:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 08:09:25 1985
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Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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Summary: 

In article <208@pyuxii.UUCP> tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) writes:
>Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents.  I have a 15 year old
>who bats left and eats right.  He has trouble batting righty, but
>does everything else from the right just fine, except produce
>clear legible handwriting.  We never encouraged the use of either
>hand.
This followup maybe oughta be in sports only, but..
There are plenty of good switch hitters (eg Pete Rose). If you look at
the hand position, you'll notice that a lefty hitter has the same 
setup as a righty rifle shooter or a righty pool player.
Also, and more important, a righty hitting lefty (or vice versa) has his
strong arm leading the swing, which always helps.



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