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From: gates@bdmrrr.UUCP (Al Gates)
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Subject: Re: Switch pitchers.
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 12:04:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 12:04:32 1985
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> p.15 -- "Sammy Stewart earned the win in relief, allowing only 1 hit and no
> runs in 4-1/3 innings.  The highlight of his appearance occurred with 2 out
> in the ninth.  Stewart, a strapping right-hander, got 2 quick strikes on
> left-hand-hitting Dave Revering.  Then Stewart-whom Rick Dempsey calls `a
> crazy country boy from Swannonoa, North Carolina'- suddenly slipped the
> glove off his left hand and onto his right.  He started into a left-handed
> wind-up and was about to throw the ball southpaw, but Revering stepped out
> of the batter's box.  Then Stewart reversed his glove and threw a
> right-handed pitch that Revering popped up to end the game.
> 

I knew Sammy Stewart did something like this once but I couldn't put my finger
on the actual occurence.  I believe that the next time Dave Revering faced
Sammy, he poked one into the seats.  I remember Brooks Robinson saying something
about the revenge factor causing that homerun but I'm not sure.

Tim Murnane was also a switch pitcher in the 1880's.  In the edition of the
MacMillan Encyclopedia of Baseball he is listed as batting both and throwing
both.  Unfortunately, I don't know the details of how he did this.


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