Is it true is left hand people is very good at baseball?
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if you throw lefty, the only 3 positions you could play are first base, outfield, and pitcher. if you're any other position, it's really hard to play. also, being left handed does not make you any good at baseball. you gotta work at it. you're not just born good.
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As far as I know, baseball has always been played for the most part by people who have the use of their feet. Sure, some disabled people play as well, but that probably doesn't have anything to do with the mesure of the distance to the wall from the plate.
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Its extremely different. For one, you don't run the bases as you do in baseball. And I do believe one person can keep hitting........and hitting.........and hitting. But what do I know? *shrugs*
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there is a part of the brain that deals with that activity, the hand we use to pick up stuff or write, and from what i was told (i am left-handed by the way!)it is the side that is located that determines if you will be left-handed or right-handed. Left-handed people are no less intelligent then right-handed people OK?
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there are left handed scholarship
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In general, a lefty would use a glove that goes on his right hand.  The reason is that you want your stronger arm (the left) available for throwing, which requires more strength than catching.
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I feel that by far the best utility guy in the MLB is Chone Figgins of the Angels. He combines great speed with a consistent glove and a solid bat. Another good utility is Ryan Freelof the Reds. He has excellent speed, but doesn't have as good of a bat as Figgins. Also, there are Bill Hall of the Brewers and Brandon Inge of the Tigers, if you want to count him. Brandon Inge has been playing 3rd base very consistently of recent, but in addition he has played outfield, shortstop, and catcher in his professional baseball career.
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Allen Border was skilled in both sports and you could see it in his hitting and fielding.  Baseball skills give you good fielding skills, either as an infielder who can throw down the stumps or an outfielder who has a strong arm and can calmly catch the skiied balls.  The world champion Australian cricket team currently use a US baseball fielding coach.\n\nBatting is harder to learn as it requires a lot of technique coaching but the core skills such as hand eye coordination and power crossover.  A strong baseball hitter could become a very effective batsman.\n\nBowling is the hardest skill of all to pick up and there is nothing in baseball that maps across.  Baseball pitching is nothing like cricket bowling.
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General agreement among coaches is, it takes too much time for a left-hander to set and throw across the field to 1st base compared to a right-handers on short ground balls. 3rd base is not as bad as 2nd or shortstop, but all three take an extra second or two to turn and position the lead shoulder toward 1st base for a strong throw. On the other hand, Left-handers make excellent 1st basemen and are often part of strong double play combos! I am left handed, and played short and 3rd through little league. As the speed of the game increased in high school and college, I was converted to an outfielder. You just don't get as much behind the ball on your throws, if you can't turn and throw off your back foot. The only problem with catching as a left-hander is you are always having to step to the right (away from a right handed batter) to throw to second. Once again it costs you a second or two that can be the difference between throwing a runner out or not.
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since more batters are right handed than left handed, it makes sense for the right handers to not have to turn to get to first.  lefties now have technique so they can get to first faster, however.
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Babe Ruth\n\nRuth, a left hander, proved to be (1914—19) a formidable pitcher for the Red Sox and one of the most successful in major-league baseball, winning 87 and losing 44 games and winning three World Series games (one in 1916, two in 1918). However, because pitchers do not play in every game, in 1919 Ruth was shifted to the outfield, where his hitting prowess could be used consistently.\n\nThe following year he was sold to the New York Yankees of the American League, and because of his batting feats and attractive public personality he greatly helped to salvage baseball's popularity, weakened by revelations that gamblers and players, in the so-called Black Sox scandal, had successfully conspired to influence the results of the 1919 World Series. Ruth hit the most home runs per season for several years (1919—21, 1923—24, 1926—30), tied for the home run lead in 1918 and 1931, and set a record of 60 home runs in a 154-game season in 1927. (In 1961 Roger Maris hit 61 in a 162-game season, in 1998 Mark McGwire hit 70, and in 2001 Barry Bonds hit 73.) Ruth hit 714 home runs in major league play, a record that held until 1974, when Hank Aaron surpassed it. Ruth led the Yankees to seven pennants (1921—23, 1926—28, 1932), and Yankee Stadium, built in 1923, came to be known as "the house that Ruth built." \n\nHe was the highest-paid player of his era, but toward the end of his career he took several salary cuts before he was traded by the Yankees to the Boston Braves (National League) in 1935. He played with the Braves while serving as assistant manager but soon (June, 1935) was released.\n\nRuth was an unmistakable figure with his large frame and spindle-thin legs, and his talented and colorful play captured baseball fans' imagination. For example, in the third game of the 1932 World Series he appeared to indicate a spot in the stands of the Chicago Cubs' ball park where he would hit the ball and promptly blasted it there for a home run. Off the playing field "the Bambino," as he was affectionately called, made headlines for his charitable actions, such as visiting sick children in hospitals, as well as for his prodigious appetites and flamboyant lifestyle.\n\nIn 1936, Ruth became the second player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame; Ty Cobb was the first. A year before he died he established and endowed the Babe Ruth Foundation to aid underprivileged youth. He wrote How to Play Baseball (1931). ...
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Yes. Baseball players generally have a much longer tenure and good playing years as opposed to other sports like football, hockey and such that are harder on the body and joints.
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The answer is it's from the pitcher's perspective. If you face home plate from the mound you'll understand. On TV the camera is behind the catcher and that is why they look like they're on the left. \nAlso, right-handed batters are actually swinging left handed. It's the bottom hand that is the control hand when you swing. The reverse is also true for left-handed batters. I came up with this question ages ago, and this was the explanation I got from one of the MLB Scouting Bureau scouts during a tryout.
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They don't any more than any other player, but if they did it would be because they thought they could hit better.\n\nHitting lefty if you throw righty is a bit better if you are a weak hitter because your dominant eye is on the side that you use to throw, and for a weak hitter it is best for the dominant eye to be nearest the incoming ball. Also, the arm towards the pitcher is the most important arm because it does most of the work in guiding the batt onto the ball. If you don't make contact, it doesn't matter how hard you swing. For most pitchers, just making contact is a great success, so they work on that first.\n\nAll the BULL about protecting the pitching arm is just guessing, and guessing wrong. Pitchers "bail out" at anything remotely near them, and the umpires are particularly sensitive about allowing the pitcher on the mound throw near the pitcher in the batters box.\n\nI should know. I was a pitcher who could hardly hit anything righty, but I had some success hitting lefty with better batt control. It never went very far when I hit it, but at least I made contact occassionally.
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The answer is YES. Forget about the betting. \nHis Career Numbers are:\n\n4256 hits- Most All-Time\n3562 Games Played- Most All-Time\n2165 runs- 5th most All-Time\n746 doubles-2nd All Time\n5752 total bases- 6th All-Time\n.303 Career Average\nOnly had 160 Career Homeruns and \nOnly had 1314 Career Rbi.\nPlayed the game the way it was meant to be played. \n\nIf anyone belongs ... he does. Hasn't it been long enough?
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Center Fielders are better fielders than left or right, plus, JR was awesome on the field. Barry has more Gold Gloves, but i´m gonna say griffey is better and was better...\n\nBefore, just barley... now, by far!
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It is possible to learn ambidexterity, but it is also difficult. \nA naturally left-handed person would hold a pen diferently from one who is naturally right handed.\nWatch a left-hander write and emulate the style, then keep rewriting the alphabet until you have mastered the ability.