英语词汇southpaw的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	southpaw
词源	southpaw. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, then a sportswriter, coined this word for a left-handed baseball pitcher while cover- ing sports in Chicago in the 1880s. Home plate in the Chicago ball park was then to the west, so that a left-handed pitcher re- leased the ball from the “paw,” or hand, on his south side. The word soon came to describe any left-hander.
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