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Definition of Left-handed pitcher
1. Noun. A baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand.
Generic synonyms: Hurler, Pitcher, Twirler
Derivative terms: Left Hand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Left-handed Pitcher
Literary usage of Left-handed pitcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"Hence it is that the left-handed pitcher is not used against teams of men who
bat left- handed, as often as against a right-handed team, and that, ..."
2. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1906)
"I soon saw that if we got our men back we must capture the left-handed pitcher
for our club, and that I as a business man must learn to love baseball to ..."
3. Walter Camp's Book of College Sports by Walter Camp (1900)
"A left- handed pitcher is able to make much more of what to a right-handed batsman
is an la-curve, for to such a pitcher it is the easiest one to produce ..."
4. Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton (1910)
"Each man must know how hard Fred Clarke, a left handed batter, is likely to hit
a left handed pitcher's fast curve towards left field, and how hard he will ..."
5. Read & Understand, Nonfiction Grades 4-6 by Tekla N. White, Marilyn Evans, Evan-Moor Corporation (1999)
"Before Ruth gained fame as a power hitter, he was a left-handed pitcher with the
Boston Red Sox. In 1915, his rookie season, he won 18 games. ..."
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