In a Class C Western Association minor league game against the Topeka Jayhawks, future major league player and manager Paul Richards of the Muskogee Chiefs is summoned from his shortstop position to pitch. The 19 year-old right-hander throws with both hands during his brief appearance on the mound, including an unusual confrontation with a switch-hitter, that briefly results in both the pitcher and the batter continually swapping hands and batter’s boxes, respectively, until the ambidextrous hurler becomes a left-hander and right-hander on alternate pitches, regardless of where the batter places himself.

On July 23, 1928 — In a Class C Western Association minor league game against the Topeka Jayhawks, future major league player and manager Paul Richards of the Muskogee Chiefs is summoned from his shortstop position to pitch. The 19 year-old right-hander throws with both hands during his brief appearance on the mound, including an unusual confrontation with a switch-hitter, that briefly results in both the pitcher and the batter continually swapping hands and batter’s boxes, respectively, until the ambidextrous hurler becomes a left-hander and right-hander on alternate pitches, regardless of where the batter places himself.

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