Ryan Ludwick may be one of them. Not sure about the other...

I write left-handed, kick with my left foot, eat left-handed, and scoop ice cream left-handed.

I throw right-handed, bat right-handed, bowl right-handed, use scissors right-handed, and use a mouse right-handed. In volleyball I serve and spike right-handed. In basketball I shoot right-handed.

Air hockey and ping pong I can do with equal proficiency with either hand.

I am left-handed all the way except in baseball where I throw and bat righty. Everything else I do I do as a southpaw.

I do everything righthanded except block shots/spike a volleyball. However, I've pretty much taught myself to shoot a basketball as well lefthanded as I do righthanded (largely due to being a mediocre shooter righthanded). I've also taught myself to throw pretty decently lefthanded, which developed after years of working on my lefthanded pickoff move just because lefthanded pickoff moves are supremely awesome.

Interesting how many of those BR/TL players are pitchers, once you get down a ways on the list. Wonder why that is. (I'd figure it'd be the opposite, more likely--pitchers hit so poorly, you'd figure they'd want to hit lefty and get the platoon advantage more often than not. Or maybe it's not something they have that kind of control over.)

Ryan Ludwick may be one of them. Not sure about the other...

I guessed Ludwick as well, and he is in fact one of them. I wouldn't have come up with the second if you gave me all day.

The only eye the Yankees should be giving Wells is the stinkeye.

Or the kind that Patricia Neal gave Gort, all the while thinking, "W(hy)TF did I get within 5 miles of this thing?"

Interesting how many of those BR/TL players are pitchers, once you get down a ways on the list. Wonder why that is. (I'd figure it'd be the opposite, more likely--pitchers hit so poorly, you'd figure they'd want to hit lefty and get the platoon advantage more often than not. Or maybe it's not something they have that kind of control over.)

I think the game itself is the big reason. Throwing lefthanded is only an advantage at two positions, pitcher and first base. It's not an option for three positions, virtually not an option at a fourth (catcher) and is neutral in the outfield.

But pitcher is the only position where throwing lefthanded is specifically selected for. Most talented lefthanded throwing baseball players are given a shot on the mound. Their batting (where being lefthanded is an advantage) is not important, so the fact that some of them prefer to swing righthanded may not be an issue in their development. Lefty throwers who aren't pitchers may be more encouraged to swing the stick from the left side as well, or less inclined to make it due to their inherent competitive disadvantages (both throwing and batting).

The game itself and genetics contributes to the paucity of BR/TL players.

This month we discovered my that my left handed daughter actually plays basketball (ie dribbling, shooting) much better right handed. She's new to the game and spent a couple weeks not liking it much before switching. Hat tip to the coach who suggested it.

There's an entire chapter in Tim Kurkjian's book on this issue of handedness. He's got a *lot* of stories on this: guys who play above the waist one handed (baseball, tennis) and below the waist (hockey, golf) the other, or soft touch (ping pong, putting) one way and hard touch (baseball, driver) the other. BTW, on the whole his book "Is This a Great Game, or What?" is a fun read.

Wow! We are in a golden age of BR/TL hitters with two of the top 7 all-time in PA playing right now. (if anyone knows who they are before looking at the list, I sure didn't)

In 2003, four of the top 15 all-time in BR/TL plate appearences were active in the Major Leagues, which is pretty impressive for a single season. In fact, overall 2003 saw BR/TL plate appearences by seven of the Top 50.

I've never understood why lefthanded guitar playing is described the way it. That seems like the way a righty should play,.

I'm about as dominantly right-handed as one can get.

I'm also very dominant right handed, though I taught myself to bat left handed. Of course, I did it at an age where my only practice is softball games or the batting cage, so it's not particularly useful. I grew up in a house with a pitched roof. I'd toss a wiffle ball up there and hit it as it came down, and there was only enough room to hit ball as left handed as it came off the roof.

The only thing I do left handed is play hockey, but I barely consider that a righty/lefty thing. To me it always made more sense to play left handed. If you play hockey left handed, it's actually your right hand that is on the stick 100% of the time. It's a lot easier to play with one hand on the stick when it's your dominant hand, and I generate most of my power with my right hand anyway. The left hand is essentially a fulcrum. There's an interesting New York Times article on this.

According to sales figures from stick manufacturers, a majority of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, and a majority of American players shoot right-handed. No reason is known for this disparity, which cuts across all age groups and has persisted for decades.

Most Canadians, like most Americans, are naturally right-handed, so the discrepancy has nothing to do with national brain-wiring. And how you hold a pencil, say, has little or no bearing on how you hold a stick. A left-handed shooter puts his right hand on top; a right-hander puts the left hand there.

And I'm left-handed and bat right!

I don't understand why this is so popular. Batting right-handed puts you at a disadvantage in two major ways: you're facing more same-handedness pitchers, and you're further from 1B. I would think practically everyone would be strongly encouraged to bat left-handed if at all capable of doing so.

I'm a pretty terrible athlete, but I can't even complete a baseball swing right-handed. It's one of the most unnatural motions.

I don't understand why this is so popular.

Do you have a dominant eye?
If so, all other tings being equal you should bat opposite your dominant eye.

If you are righthanded, and your dominant eye is your left, if you can physically swing a bat as well lefthanded as righthanded- you should bat left.

I've never understood why lefthanded guitar playing is described the way it. That seems like the way a righty should play,.

Back when I played regularly, the fingertips on my fret hand were callused to the point where I really couldn't feel much with them. I'd much rather have that on my non-dominant hand.

Do you have a dominant eye?
If so, all other tings being equal you should bat opposite your dominant eye.

I have surgically corrected vision, so not anymore. Prior to the surgery, I used to be left-eye-dominant for close vision and right-eye-dominant for far vision. Which side should I have batted based on that.

All other things aren't equal, though. I would think that you'd need to be substantially better from the right side to make up for the pitcher handedness and distance from 1B issues, especially at the non-professional level where it's probably closer to 90% right-handed pitching.

The only eye the Yankees should be giving Wells is the stinkeye.

The brown eye.

Left handed at everything except bowling. I think I got taught that way.

A sciency type once noted with great interest that I throw with my left hand but kick with my right foot; however he didn't say why this was interesting. Anyone know? Just a rarity?

Also I bat right, but he didn't find that interesting.

I used to be right handed. But then I started using the mouse with my right hand. So now I use my left.

I typically do everything with my right hand, but I can hit left (albeit with no power) and I swing an axe backwards (left on the bottom). I've tried to teach myself to throw left handed, and I just cant do it. I could learn to write left handed, but throwing just feels wrong.

#37 I bat right, write right-handed, eat left-handed (mostly), am very left-footed (soccer) and shoot left (hockey) but golf right. I still (mid 50s) can shoot pretty well and I'm a really lousy golfer so I might have made a mistake in golfing right-handed. But when/where I started no left-handed clubs were available.

Canada has a very high percentage of left-handed golfers because it's pretty common for right-handers to shoot left in hockey (nobody really knows why. This is much less common in the US) and an awful lot of people who shoot left will golf left.

#40 nothing odd about shooting left at hockey. Thinking (way) back, if a kid is given a choice it's almost random which side he'll choose.

EDIT: Come to that, the choice is often made before the kid can actually shoot. Watch young kids play hockey on ice and the pretty much poking the puck a few inches at a time and reaching way out in front.

EDIT2: My first stick was left-handed. Didn't pick it, it was a gift. Picked basically because it seemed the right size.

I've never understood why lefthanded guitar playing is described the way it. That seems like the way a righty should play,.

I wondered this too, then figured it out when I started playing Guitar Hero and experimented playing lefty. It's the timing. It's not that hard to press frets with your nondominant hand when you've got a fraction of a beat (a third of a second or so) to settle the muscle motions into place. It's a lot harder for the nondominant hand to strum accurately within 10 ms of the beat.

I do everything right-handed with no exceptions. About the only things I can do at all with my left hand are throwing a Frisbee and juggling, and both of those are thanks to significant time of deliberate practice. (I'm still better righty at both.)

#55 Joaquín Andújar was a switch-hitter. It may be an urban legend, but the story I'd heard is that he'd often make the decision which side to bat from based on whether he thought the pitcher would be throwing at him.

Interesting how many of those BR/TL players are pitchers, once you get down a ways on the list. Wonder why that is. (I'd figure it'd be the opposite, more likely--pitchers hit so poorly, you'd figure they'd want to hit lefty and get the platoon advantage more often than not. Or maybe it's not something they have that kind of control over.)

You'd think that batting righty would be discouraged left handed pitchers simply because it leaves their pitching elbow exposed and at risk of injury from HBP. they're going to be crappy hitters either way, so why not just make them bat lefty and get their pitching arms out of harm's way?

I wondered this too, then figured it out when I started playing Guitar Hero and experimented playing lefty. It's the timing. It's not that hard to press frets with your nondominant hand when you've got a fraction of a beat (a third of a second or so) to settle the muscle motions into place. It's a lot harder for the nondominant hand to strum accurately within 10 ms of the beat.

It's that and the touch and attack of picking, with a pick or finger picking. You need to do a lot more subtle movements with the picking hand.

So I'm not the only one who does every thing with the left hand and kicks with the right leg. trying to think back I have no idea why this is just seems like i can get more power out of my right leg. And I do know my right arm is stronger then my left (but that's a whole different issue there)

I am a lefty, and have always hit RH, and my dad was a lefty, too. I remember how he'd say I was 'doing it backwards.' As I grew older and started playing ball, I had a very nice level 'straight on' swing, the ball usually on a line to center. When I started playing Ponce de Leon in my forties, it was the first time I tried swinging left - I found that lefty, I was a dead pull hitter, and could suddenly hit home runs. I didn't make contact as often, but when I did the ball went a long way.

I play guitar right, soccer left, dribble right, golf right.

I wonder if there's any connection at all between swinging a bat righty and being right-handed. Why do we call it "batting right-handed", anyway?

I don't know why we call it batting right-handed (good question) but part of the correlation is that the footwork is the same. If you're throwing/batting right-handed you're leading with your left foot and anchoring with your right foot, and vice versa. The seems to matter for most people - using one foot as a consistent anchor, the other as a consistent approach.

I touch myself with both hands. Sometimes, at the same time.

When I started playing Ponce de Leon in my forties, it was the first time I tried swinging left - I found that lefty, I was a dead pull hitter, and could suddenly hit home runs.

Sudden power in your forties? Steroids.

I play guitar left-handed (or bass guitar more accurately). But I just take a right-handed guitar and play it upside down. Changing strings is so much work! Plus, it just makes sense. The low string should be lowest!