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Old 05-31-2015, 01:53 AM   #25374
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Not unheard of; as I'm sure Jack knows, Cleon Jones was a natural lefty, but played in his youth in a park with a very short RF fence where the ground rule was that a ball hit over the fence was an out (to save baseballs, I guess), and so learned to bat RH instead. Brooks Robinson was naturally left-handed, but his dad had played 2B in semi-pro ball, and taught Brooks to throw righty, so he could play infield, too.

Norman Rockwell did a painting of Brooks signing autographs lefty, one-time:

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People wrote Rockwell, "correcting" his "mistake". Nope.
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