What, you might ask, is wrong with “southpaw”? Shouldn’t we be grateful for a word so picturesque? Why isn’t it a relief to have twirlers and circuit clouts instead of the same old pitchers and home runs? The answer is that these words have become even cheaper currency than the coins they were meant to replace. They come flooding automatically out of the typewriter of every scribe (sportswriter) in every press box.
