{{other uses}} {{Wiktionary}} '''Lefty''' is a nickname for a person who is left-handed'''.''' The nickname is commonly given to baseball players, particularly pitchers who throw left. '''Lefty''' may refer to: {{tocright}} == American baseball players ==
=== Pitchers === * Lefty Bell (fl. 1948) * Lefty Bertrand (1909–2002) * Lefty Boone (1920–1976) * Randolph "Lefty" Bowe (1918–2016) * Lefty Bowers (1909–1978) *Farmer "Lefty" Brady (1893–1957) *Walter "Lefty" Calhoun (1911–1976) *Lefty Capers (1906–1961) *Steve Carlton (born 1944) *Cliff Chambers (1922–2012) *Lefty Clarke (1896–1975), pitched for one game *Frank "Lefty" Fanovich (1923–2011) *Lefty George (1886–1955) *Lefty Gervais (1890–1950) *Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), Mexican-American *Lefty Grove (1900–1975) *Lefty Harvey (1890–unknown) *Lefty Herring (1880–1965) *Lefty Hoerst (1917–2000) *Lefty Holmes (1907–1987) *Lefty Hopper (1874–1959) *Frank Killen (1870–1939) *Lefty Leifield (1883–1970) *Lefty Mellix (1896–1985) *Lefty Moses (1914–1989) *Lefty Pangburn (1886–1973) *Lefty Phillips (born 1918) *Lefty Robinson (1891–1974) *Lefty Stewart (1900–1974) *Lefty Tyler (1889–1953) *Lefty Weinert (1900–1973) *Lefty Wilkie (1914–1992), Canadian *Lefty Williams (1893–1959), involved in the Black Sox scandal *Lefty York (1892–1961)
=== Other baseball players === *Lefty Atkinson (1904–1961) *Lefty Davis (1875–1919), outfielder *Lefty Guise (1908–1968) *Lefty Houtz (1875–1959), outfielder *Lefty Marr (1862–1912) *Lefty Mills (1912–1982) *Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), Major League Baseball player and minor league manager *Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive
== Other people ==
* Lefty Bates (1920–2007), American Chicago blues guitarist * Lefty Byers (1905–2000), American basketball coach and player * Paul "Lefty" Courty (1925–2008), American basketball player * Lefty Dizz (1937–1993), American guitarist and singer * Lefty Driesell (1931–2024), American college basketball coach * Lefty Frizzell (1928–1975), American country music singer and songwriter * Maurice Bennett "Lefty" Flynn (1892–1959), American football player and actor * Lefty Hendrickson (born 1943), Canadian football player * Lefty Kreh (1925–2018), American fly fisherman and photographer * Lefty McFadden, namesake of the Lefty McFadden Invitational college ice hockey tournament * Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer * Lefty Reid (1927–2020), Canadian curator *Frank Rosenthal (1929–2008), American sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate *Lefty Ruggiero (1926–1994), American mobster * Lew Tendler (1898–1970), American Hall-of-Fame boxer * "Lefty", an on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)
==Fictional characters== * Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. * Lefty, character in the ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' franchise. *Levsha (disambiguation), the Russian title usually translated as "Lefty" or "the Left-Hander")
==See also== *Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen ''Scaevola'', meaning left-handed
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