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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Lefty Advantage
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 17:32:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 17:32:45 1985
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Summary: 

>> Two areas where being left-handed can be an advantage:
>> 1.  Baseball - the proportion of major league baseball players who are
>> left-handed is much higher than the general population, because
>> left-handed people are often an advantage, especially at 1st base
>> pitching, and the need for left-handed batters.

I was under the impression that the real advantage in baseball was
cross-dominance -- where a person is left-handed and right-eyed, or
vice versa.  This allows a batter to keep his eye on the ball all the
way to the plate ("stand up to the plate" in a batter's stance and
imagine that you are cross-dominant and you'll see what I mean).  I
believe it is much more common for leftys to have a dominant right
eye than it is for the opposite to occur; thence more leftys in baseball.

I agree with the advantage of being a left-handed batter if for no other
reason than pitchers aren't as used to pitching to them; but it seems
to me that first-basemen would be throwing not to home plate (easier for a
lefty), but to second and third base (easier for a righty).
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