Friday, May 25, 2007
Lefties, Righties, and Career Home Runs
Here's a little piece of statistical trivia: Of the 4 players to have hit over 600 homers (before Sosa joins them soon), 2 hit from the left side (Ruth and Bonds), and two (Aaron and Mays) from the right. Of the 20 to have hit 500+, 9 were lefties, 9 righties and 2 were switch hitters (Mantle and Murray). And of those to have hit 450 or more--you guessed it--15 were lefties, 15 righties and 2 switch-hit. how about that for even distribution? Of course you might not consider it even in another way, since right-handed hitters outnumber lefties by a good bit. When you go down to those with 400+, you add 4 lefties and 6 righties, for a total of 19 lefties, 21 righties and 2 who switch-hit.
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