Wasn't he pitching as a right hander when he batted as a left hander?
shareYeah I'm sure it was because Redford modeled Hobbs on his favorite player Ted Williams- who threw right and batted left. Williams pitched in high school (and 2 innings for the Red Sox).
shareJust re-watched it; seems to me like he's constantly pitching and batting as a left hander throughout the film.
shareI checked it out and you're correct, Hobbs throws and bats lefty throughout the film.
shareIt's usually the other way around but there is plenty of guys to throw lefty and hit righty. Their natural primary arm is their throwing arm but when they're a kid they were taught to hit righthanded since most of their coaches were righthanded and it was easier to teach them hit righty.
shareMany years ago, in Little League type baseball, I knew a kid who was a switch hitter, and batted equally well from both sides of the plate. Perhaps a bit better from the left side. He threw right handed and all of us who saw him pitch, thought he was a natural right handed pitcher. One day in practice, his dad, who was a coach, made a remark that his son could throw left handed too. We didn't believe it, and most of us said he couldn't do it. His dad borrowed an opposite handed glove from another player, gave it to him and told him to throw a couple left handed. To our anazement, he threw pretty well as a lefty, perhaps not as fast or as hard, but good enough. His dad later said he started out as a lefty, but one of his earlier coaches started teaching him to throw righty and he was a better right handed pitcher. Just goes to show you, some players are natually ambidexterous.
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