From: rap50204@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Underdog )
Subject: Southpaw?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Can anyone out there tell me why they call left-handed pitchers
"Southpaw"?

Also the story on how the term originated.

Thanks!! 


Go Cubs! 

Prediction: They will finish over .500 this year without winning the East.