I'm Ambidextrous.How many MLB players in history were Ambidextrous?& what are the odds of being Ambidextrous?
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Ever notice that the Yankees vs Red Sox debate here sometimes..?
Are you asking about positon players or about pitchers?Any switch hitter is by definition ambidextrous, at least at the plate. Position players, though, will only throw with one arm, and the same is true of just about every pitcher who has ever hiked a mound.
Just about.
The ambidextrous Greg Harris did pitch left-handed once, while with the Expos, and in a home game. Do you remember the area behind the plate at The Big O, the area with the glass? On his first left-handed pitch in the majors, Harris was a bit wild, and broke that glass.
Harris was not the first man to pitch with both arms in the major leagues, but he was the first in the "modern" era. This is the entry from the 1st edition of "Total Baseball"
July 18, 1882
Ambidextrous hurler Tony Mullane of Louisville pitches with both hands in a major league game at Baltimore. Normally a righthander, Mullane switches to the left hand in the fourth inning. He does quite well for several innings but eventually loses to Baltimore, 9-8.
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