Lefties better at baseball--engineer to Newsweek

Notes Sports by Brooks: "Also included: the fact that most stadiums were built with right-handed hitters in mind originally, so the left field fences were placed further back,

• or, in the case of Fenway Park, a Green Monster was erected. Interestingly enough, Fenway and Yankee Stadium are also a couple of the easiest places to hit homers if you’re a lefty as a result.

(This also explains why the player who throws lefty but hits right-handed is even rarer — Rickey Henderson was the best example I can think of.)"...

• Newsweek.com article, "Southpaw's Revenge," by Andrew Bast, 7/18/08

Tweet Stumbleupon StumbleUpon