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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Lefty Advantage
Message-ID: <275@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 08:51:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 08:51:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 06:17:24 EDT
References: <47500006@hpfclo.UUCP> <834@burl.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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Summary: 

In article <834@burl.UUCP> rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
>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.

Anyone who sees the ballwith onlyl one eye wont make it out of little 
league. EVERY batter turns his head to face the ball for its entire
flight.
I forget whether I posted my comment on the strong arm leading the
swing when you bat from x but throw y. If I did,sorry for this repetition.
And of course, when a lefty finishes his swing, he's facing first but
a righty is facing third and has that much more trouble
running to first.



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