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In baseball, left-handed players have a [http://www.newsweek.com/id/146842 big advantage] over their right-handed competitors. Especially when batting against a right handed pitcher. Left-handed pitchers are able to counter this advantage, so a good baseball team usually wants to have several left-handed pitchers. The slang term for such a pitcher is a ''southpaw'', derived from the fact that a traditionally oriented baseball field would have the pitcher facing west, and thus would have the south to his left.<ref>This prevents a setting sun from getting in the batter's, catcher's, or umpire's eyes, which would make their jobs much harder and be potentially dangerous. Pitchers will never have this problem because the grandstand where fans sit behind home plate are high enough to block the sun before it becomes a problem</ref>
This appears in fiction as well, where left-handedness is used a defining characteristic, and is treated as a slight positive. For left-handedness being a sign of evil see [[A Sinister Clue]].
For example, left-handed sword fighters able to take advantage of right-handed
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* Luciana in ''[[Yggdra Union]]''. This is one of the handful of ways we're given tell her and her twin sister Aegina apart, other than slight differences in their hairstyles and the colors of their armor.
* Cid Highwind from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' is the only left-handed member of the group, unless you count Barret. Sephiroth is an example of [[A Sinister Clue]].
* ''Final Fantasy II'' has no less than ''four''
* Also from ''Final Fantasy'' is [[Final Fantasy IV|Kain Highwind]], though like Link, his dominant hand is somewhat inconsistent; his original artwork shows him as right-handed, but he equips weapons to his left hand in-game. The DS version inverts this; the artwork shows him as a lefty, but he equips weapons to his right hand now! He is generally considered to be left-handed, and he fights this way is ''Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy'' (though his artwork shows him right-handed to resemble his original art). There's Golbez and Palom.
* Kokoro from ''[[Remember 11]]''
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** This is probably because the two of them fence, and this is the only way they can face the audience when controlled by the player instead of having their backs to them.
*** Except they do hold their backs to the camera, when on the Player 2 side. In fact, so does virtually every character.
* Katakura Kojuro from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' is the only left-handed character in the series. He is also one of the most superior swordsmen in terms of sheer skill and technique, and mostly relies on [[Diagonal Cut
* Luke fon Fabre in [[Tales of the Abyss]] is left-handed (which implies that {{spoiler|Asch}} is too, though he wields his sword with his right hand, and thus his sword hangs perpendicularly from his back, rather than at his side as most conventional designs go. It isn't a major plot point, but it does make for a touching moment at the end of the game, where [[Cool Old Guy]]/[[Colonel Badass]] Jade offers his own left hand for Luke to shake, despite being right-handed himself, out of respect for the [[Character Development|personal growth]] Luke experiences throughout the game.
** It's also because, in Japan, shaking ones left hand is considered to be a greater sign of trust since that's the one you hold your shield in. Jade is not only recognising Luke's development, but also indicating that he trusts Luke enough to let his guard down in front of him.
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