switch pitcher
nounEtymology By analogy with switch hitter.
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
- As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League2000, Brent P. Kelley, The Negro leagues revisited: conversations with 66 more baseball heroes, →ISBN, page 142: