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Great Left Handers in Baseball Since 1900
Grantland Rice surveys top left handed pitchers since 1900, naming Carl Hubbell Lefty Grove Rube Waddell Eddie Plank Lefty Gomez Herb Pennock and others. He ranks Hubbell Pennock Grove Waddell and Plank as the leading four with an alternate, noting Connie Mack’s left hand plans and historical records. The piece also references Red Rolfe’s Tigers and the 1950 pennant race among AL teams.
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Homer
Shakespeare
Kipling
Keats
New Jersey
Young
Johnson
Alexander
Mathewson
Grantland Rice
Ramsay
Southpaws
Carl Hubbell
New York Giants
Lefty Grove
Philadelphia Athletics
Rube Waddell
Herb Pennock
Athletics
Red Sox
Yankees
Eddie Plank
Doc White
Chicago White Sox
Art Nehf
Nap ‘Rucker
Brooklyn Dodgers
Howie Pollet
St. Louis Cardinals
Hal Newhouser
Detroit Tigers
Rube Marquard
Babe Ruth
Lefty Gomez
Ruth
Marquard
Gomez
Robert Moses
Lefty) Grove
George Edward
Rube) Waddell
Mr. Mack
Connie
Chief Bender
Grove
Connie Mack