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US baseball player Pete Whisenant posing with Cuban Revolutionary fans, Havana, Cuba, 1959
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That neckbeard has me itching for him.
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I'm curious if the person on the far left of the picture is ambidextrous. Their sidearm is holstered on their left hip implying they are left hand dominant, yet they are also wearing the baseball glove on their left hand when typically you'd catch with your off/weaker hand and throw with your dominant one.
Some folks have opposite eye dominance than their hand dominance.
I do, and I carry for left hand draw despite being a righty for almost everything else.
There's also situational benefits to carrying off-hand, though I seriously doubt they apply here. It's just so much more likely that he shoots lefty and does other things righty.
That being said, handguns are typically a back-up, or emergency weapon, as opposed to long guns that are meant to be your primary arms. Some drivers will carry lefty even if they're right eye dominant because if they need to shoot while driving; having the dominant hand on the wheel is more important. Same for people that might need to operate other machinery while shooting. Like I said, very situational.
Joke reason : he's a radical leftist, where else would he carry?
something tells me that just might not be his glove lol.
considering he's wearing a police uniform and pistol belt.
Then he must not intend on throwing anything he catches unless he's at least partially ambidextrous.
EDIT: For some reason I'm ignoring this was likely just a staged photograph and he isn't throwing or catching anything. Disregard me :)
Then he must not intend on throwing anything he catches unless he’s at least partially ambidextrous.
he's a cop posing for a photo op at a ballgame.
what do you think he's going to throw?
Initially my brain was bucketing the photo with recent pictures posted of Fidel playing basketball so I was operating under the assumption there were friendly games being played between the pictured parties. Obviously it's far more likely it was just a simple staged photograph where the glove was traded with the gun and neither were actually in use.
This picture looks like an SNL spoof of this picture
ballplayer is like: no really, what's in that funny cigar I smoked earlier? it's the bees knees man....
I’m guessing it’s just Whisenant’s glove