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Show ii i ii i i -i Only One Ambidextrous - Pitcher in All Baseball , In all the years of professional baseball, there has never been but one pitcher wio could pitch with either hand, says Bor.eman Bulger, the veteran vet-eran sports writer In the Farm Journal Jour-nal , i Tom Mullune could do that thirty-five thirty-five years ago. lie could be a righthander right-hander or a cockeye at will, and was a good pitcher either way. An ambidextrous athlete one who can throw with either hand Is always al-ways of Intense Interest to ballplay. era. Sentelle, a former third-baseman and Inter umpire, had mastered the art pretty well. Being of supposedly Italian race, the more ignorant players play-ers for a )on time nursed a belief that Sentelle carried a pistol or a stiletto In case he was challenged to battle, which, of course, was not true. One day Fred Tenney, a college man, noticed Sentelle practicing at third, throwing with either hand. "Oee, look at that," he exclaimed to his teammates; "thnt fellows ambidextrous." am-bidextrous." "Bet your life he Is." remarked Bugs .Raymond, whose knowledge of big words was extremely limited. "That bird'll shoot you In a minute." |