Lefty
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Lefty is a nickname for a person who is left-handed. Lefty may refer to:
- Lefty Atkinson (1904–1961), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Lefty Bates (1920-2007), American Chicago blues guitarist
- Lefty Bertrand (1909-2002), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Steve Carlton (born 1944), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Cliff Chambers (1922-2012), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Clarke (1896-1975)), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
- Lefty Driesell (born 1931), American college basketball coach
- Lefty Frizzell (1928-1975), American country music singer and songwriter
- Lefty Gomez (1908-1989), Mexican-American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Grove (1900-1975), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Lefty Leifield (1883-1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Marr (1862-1912), American Major League Baseball player
- Lefty O'Doul (1897-1969), American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
- Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer
- Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), American Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive
- Frank Rosenthal (1929-2008), sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate whose career is the basis of the Martin Scorsese film Casino
- Benjamin Ruggiero (1926-1994), American mobster
- Lefty Stewart (1900-1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lew Tendler, American Hall of Fame boxer
- Lefty Tyler (1889-1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Weinert (1900-1973), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Lefty Wilkie (1914-1992), Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher
- Lefty Williams (1893-1959), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher involved in the Black Sox scandal
- an on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)
See also
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed
References
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