switch-hitter


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switch-hitter

A colloquial term for a bisexual person, a metaphor borrowed from baseball referring to a player who has a good batting average swinging from either the left or right side.
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Most Home Runs By Switch-hitters, Season THROUGH THE 2005 SEASON, ONLY NINE SWITCH-HITTERS have hit 35 or more home runs in a season with Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle the only one to reach the 50-HR plateau.
Mark Teixeira: a driven star in Texas: rangers' switch-hitting first baseman looks to improve in 2006 after he won a Gold Glove and clubbed 43 homers with 144 RBI in '05
Up to this point, Walt Wilmot of the Chicago Cubs was the only switch-hitter to lead the National League, smacking 13 home runs in 1890, and tying for the league lead with Oyster Burns and Mike Tiernan.
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A switch-hitter always takes the advantageous side, batting left-handed against a right-handed pitcher and right-handed against a left-handed pitcher.
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Being a switch-hitter it's a constant work in progress," he said.
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The Bradford switch-hitter knows this is his last hope of being world champion and he has already had to put up with a three-week postponement to the fight.
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When you're a switch-hitter, it's like you're always struggling from one side or the other.
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Canadian switch-hitter Syd Vanderpool won on last weekend's big Las Vegas show, battering Demetrius Jenkins - beaten by Clinton Woods in Sheffield last month - to defeat in nine rounds.
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He may fancy himself as a boxer but when he gets in the ring with a switch-hitter and someone who is as slick as James Hare, he'll find that boxing just isn't going to work for him," declared Aston.
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10 Last season, Chase Headley became the seventh switch-hitter to win a league RBI crown when he paced the National League with 115.
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The Kirkby switch-hitter cruised to a 60-54 points win and there looks plenty still to come from the stylish 22-year-old.
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300-plus batting average in Major League Baseball is needed to be considered one - it takes even more dedication in the batting cages in and out of season to become a successful switch-hitter.
Hitting from both sides of the plate
The Bradford switch-hitter is sick of Hatton's excuses and the 32-year-old is willing to sacrifice his purse to give the British boxing public the fight they want.
Boxing: FIGHT ME, YOU 'BULLY' IBF LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT TITLE: HATTON v URANGO LAS VEGAS, TOMORROW, 3.15AM
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