Lefty Explained
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:
American baseball players
Pitchers
Other baseball players
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)
- Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
- Lefty, character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
See also
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed