The more competitive the sport, the greater the proportion of left-handed players (nearly 50% of best baseball players are left-handed); as the study states, "Physical competition, on the other hand, promotes the odd." In addition to being more common among better athletes, left-handers are also more common among musicians and artists because they tend to use their non-dominant hands for artistic purposes.
However, this does not necessarily mean that right-handers are superior to left-handers. According to research done by John Bear, a professor of psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology, it appears that right-handed people are better than left-handed people because they have an evolutionary advantage over their counterparts. Right-handed people are likely to be successful in life because they are more likely to have access to food while hunting, which would help them survive. Left-handed people, on the other int her, are likely to have less access to food while hunting, which could cause them to go hungry more often than not. Therefore, right-handed people would have been selected over left-handed people due to nature's tendency to favor those who can better feed themselves and their families.
In addition, right-handed people generally have an athletic advantage over left-handed people because they are able to develop stronger muscles in their dominant arms.
The biggest advantage for left-handers in quick sports appears to be practical. Lefties are used to playing right-handers, while a left-handed opponent is a difficult exception for right-handers.
There is no logical reason why left-handed catchers cannot play. Because the majority of batters are right-handed, right-handed players appear to have a little edge.
Left-handed athletes outperform right-handed athletes in sports because players aren't as used to how they pitch the ball or deliver a punch. That implies players have less time to accommodate for left-handed athletes' various playing styles....
Also, since most goals are scored with the head, lefties have an edge here too.
Soccer is a game that depends heavily on technique and skill. So it makes sense that left-handed people would do better at soccer since they have an advantage over right-handed people in terms of hand-eye coordination. In fact, research has shown that left-handed people perform better than right-handed people on tasks requiring fine motor skills such as playing piano or shooting baskets.
There are more left-handed people in the world than right-handed people. This is probably due to natural selection: if you're born without a left hand, you can't be a lefty baseball pitcher or soccer player. So those who are born with a left hand have an advantage over those who aren't and this becomes more apparent as they get older.
It has been shown that soccer players who are left-handed tend to play closer to their body when kicking the ball. This may be why they score more goals than right-handed players -- since they don't turn their heads when kicking, they can focus all their energy on where they place the ball.
The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, suggests that being left-handed has a distinct advantage in interactive sports with severe time constraints, such as table tennis and cricket—possibly because their moves are less familiar to their mostly right-handed opponents, who have no idea...
Simply being unique: "Because just 10% of the population is left-handed, kids grow up and mature in baseball seeing a left-hander only 10% of the time," he says. "As a result, facing a southpaw may be difficult for both lefties and righties."
Yes, a left-handed batter fares better against a right-handed pitcher, according to baseball convention. The opposite is true for a right-handed batter facing a left-handed pitcher.
As a result, left-handed players had higher career averages in terms of points, rebounds, and blocks, among other metrics, and had much longer careers than right-handed players. Left-handed players also appeared in more games and played more minutes than their right-handed counterparts.
Right-handed shooters made up about 70% of all basketball players at the time of the first NBA draft, but today that number is closer to 50%. Left-handed players have been on the decline since they first began appearing in large numbers in the 1950s, when over 15% of players were left-handed. That number has since dropped to under 10%.
In fact, between 1996 and 2005, only 20% of players in the NBA were left-handed. This trend may be due to the fact that most college basketball programs prefer to play with a right-handed team, so left-handed players often are not given serious consideration by recruiters. However, there are still many advantages for left-handed players in the NBA, including having an easier time drawing fouls, shooting better from distance, and getting to the free-throw line more often.
Overall, left-handed players tend to score more points, grab more rebounds, and block more shots than right-handed players.
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