Bimanual Dexterity in Major League Baseball Players: A Statistical Study

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To the Editor: We studied the bimanual dexterity and handedness involved in hitting a baseball in groups of professional players and in controls. The professional players were separated into three groups. The first group comprised all recorded major-league baseball players (n = 5633).1 The second consisted of all major-league baseball players, excluding pitchers, who were active in 1980 (n = 569).2 , 3 The third group included only the top 141 hitters of all time who had lifetime batting averages ranging from 0.299 to 0.367.1 A control group consisted of 366 high-school and 172 grammar-school students. All experimental and control subjects . . .