# Lefty

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lefty
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lefty.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty
> Source revision: 1347635373
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

For other uses, see [Lefty (disambiguation)](/source/Lefty_(disambiguation)).

**Lefty** is a nickname for a person who is [left-handed](/source/Left-handed)**.** The nickname is commonly given to baseball players, particularly [pitchers](/source/Pitcher) who throw left. **Lefty** may refer to:

## American baseball players

### Pitchers

- [Lefty Bell](/source/Lefty_Bell) (fl. 1948)
- [Lefty Bertrand](/source/Lefty_Bertrand) (1909–2002)
- [Lefty Boone](/source/Lefty_Boone) (1920–1976)
- [Randolph "Lefty" Bowe](/source/Randolph_Bowe) (1918–2016)
- [Lefty Bowers](/source/Lefty_Bowers) (1909–1978)
- [Farmer "Lefty" Brady](/source/Farmer_Brady) (1893–1957)
- [Walter "Lefty" Calhoun](/source/Walter_Calhoun) (1911–1976)
- [Lefty Capers](/source/Lefty_Capers) (1906–1961)
- [Steve Carlton](/source/Steve_Carlton) (born 1944)
- [Cliff Chambers](/source/Cliff_Chambers) (1922–2012)
- [Lefty Clarke](/source/Lefty_Clarke) (1896–1975), pitched for one game
- [Frank "Lefty" Fanovich](/source/Frank_Fanovich) (1923–2011)
- [Lefty George](/source/Lefty_George) (1886–1955)
- [Lefty Gervais](/source/Lefty_Gervais) (1890–1950)
- [Lefty Gomez](/source/Lefty_Gomez) (1908–1989), Mexican-American
- [Lefty Grove](/source/Lefty_Grove) (1900–1975)
- [Lefty Harvey](/source/Lefty_Harvey) (1890–unknown)
- [Lefty Herring](/source/Lefty_Herring) (1880–1965)
- [Lefty Hoerst](/source/Lefty_Hoerst) (1917–2000)
- [Lefty Holmes](/source/Lefty_Holmes) (1907–1987)
- [Lefty Hopper](/source/Lefty_Hopper) (1874–1959)
- [Frank Killen](/source/Frank_Killen) (1870–1939)
- [Lefty Leifield](/source/Lefty_Leifield) (1883–1970)
- [Lefty Mellix](/source/Lefty_Mellix) (1896–1985)
- [Lefty Moses](/source/Lefty_Moses) (1914–1989)
- [Lefty Pangburn](/source/Lefty_Pangburn) (1886–1973)
- [Lefty Phillips](/source/Lefty_Phillips_(pitcher)) (born 1918)
- [Lefty Robinson](/source/Lefty_Robinson) (1891–1974)
- [Lefty Stewart](/source/Lefty_Stewart) (1900–1974)
- [Lefty Tyler](/source/Lefty_Tyler) (1889–1953)
- [Lefty Weinert](/source/Lefty_Weinert) (1900–1973)
- [Lefty Wilkie](/source/Lefty_Wilkie) (1914–1992), Canadian
- [Lefty Williams](/source/Lefty_Williams) (1893–1959), involved in the Black Sox scandal
- [Lefty York](/source/Lefty_York) (1892–1961)

### Other baseball players

- [Lefty Atkinson](/source/Lefty_Atkinson) (1904–1961)
- [Lefty Davis](/source/Lefty_Davis) (1875–1919), outfielder
- [Lefty Guise](/source/Lefty_Guise) (1908–1968)
- [Lefty Houtz](/source/Lefty_Houtz) (1875–1959), outfielder
- [Lefty Marr](/source/Lefty_Marr) (1862–1912)
- [Lefty Mills](/source/Lefty_Mills) (1912–1982)
- [Lefty O'Doul](/source/Lefty_O'Doul) (1897–1969), Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
- [Lefty Phillips](/source/Lefty_Phillips) (1919–1972), Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive

## Other people

- [Lefty Bates](/source/Lefty_Bates) (1920–2007), American Chicago blues guitarist
- [Lefty Byers](/source/Lefty_Byers) (1905–2000), American basketball coach and player
- [Paul "Lefty" Courty](/source/Paul_Courty) (1925–2008), American basketball player
- [Lefty Dizz](/source/Lefty_Dizz) (1937–1993), American guitarist and singer
- [Lefty Driesell](/source/Lefty_Driesell) (1931–2024), American college basketball coach
- [Lefty Frizzell](/source/Lefty_Frizzell) (1928–1975), American country music singer and songwriter
- [Maurice Bennett "Lefty" Flynn](/source/Maurice_Bennett_Flynn) (1892–1959), American football player and actor
- [Lefty Hendrickson](/source/Lefty_Hendrickson) (born 1943), Canadian football player
- [Lefty Kreh](/source/Lefty_Kreh) (1925–2018), American fly fisherman and photographer
- Lefty McFadden, namesake of the [Lefty McFadden Invitational](/source/Lefty_McFadden_Invitational) college ice hockey tournament
- [Phil Mickelson](/source/Phil_Mickelson) (born 1970), American professional golfer
- [Lefty Reid](/source/Lefty_Reid) (1927–2020), Canadian curator
- [Frank Rosenthal](/source/Frank_Rosenthal) (1929–2008), American sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate
- [Lefty Ruggiero](/source/Lefty_Ruggiero) (1926–1994), American mobster
- [Lew Tendler](/source/Lew_Tendler) (1898–1970), American Hall-of-Fame boxer
- "Lefty", an on-air name for American disc jockey [Captain Mikey](/source/Captain_Mikey), born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)

## Fictional characters

- Lefty, main character in [Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2](/source/Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_2).
- Lefty, character in the *[Five Nights at Freddy's](/source/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's)* franchise.
- [Levsha (disambiguation)](/source/Levsha_(disambiguation)), the Russian title usually translated as "Lefty" or "the Left-Hander")

## See also

- [Gaius Mucius Scaevola](/source/Gaius_Mucius_Scaevola), a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen *Scaevola*, meaning left-handed

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lefty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.