Lefty

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

• Lefty Bell (fl. 1948)
• Lefty Bertrand (1909–2002)
• Lefty Boone (1920–1976)
• Randolph "Lefty" Bowe (1918–2016)
• Lefty Bowers (1909–1978)
• Farmer "Lefty" Brady (1893–1957)
• Walter "Lefty" Calhoun (1911–1976)
• Lefty Capers (1906–1961)
• Steve Carlton (born 1944)
• Cliff Chambers (1922–2012)
• Lefty Clarke (1896–1975), pitched for one game
• Frank "Lefty" Fanovich (1923–2011)
• Lefty George (1886–1955)
• Lefty Gervais (1890–1950)
• Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), Mexican-American
• Lefty Grove (1900–1975)
• Lefty Harvey (1890–unknown)
• Lefty Herring (1880–1965)
• Lefty Hoerst (1917–2000)
• Lefty Holmes (1907–1987)
• Lefty Hopper (1874–1959)
• Frank Killen (1870–1939)
• Lefty Leifield (1883–1970)
• Lefty Mellix (1896–1985)
• Lefty Moses (1914–1989)
• Lefty Pangburn (1886–1973)
• Lefty Phillips (born 1918)
• Lefty Robinson (1891–1974)
• Lefty Stewart (1900–1974)
• Lefty Tyler (1889–1953)
• Lefty Weinert (1900–1973)
• Lefty Wilkie (1914–1992), Canadian
• Lefty Williams (1893–1959), involved in the Black Sox scandal
• Lefty York (1892–1961)

Other baseball players

• Lefty Atkinson (1904–1961)
• Lefty Davis (1875–1919), outfielder
• Lefty Guise (1908–1968)
• Lefty Houtz (1875–1959), outfielder
• Lefty Marr (1862–1912)
• Lefty Mills (1912–1982)
• Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
• Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive

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)

Fictional characters

• Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
• Lefty, character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
• Levsha (disambiguation), the Russian title usually translated as "Lefty" or "the Left-Hander")

See also

• Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed