12019-03-12T23:58:44+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282414plainpublished2019-08-21T17:39:07+00:00AnonymousOn September 1, 1928, a column in the Pittsburgh Courierasked readers, “Are You Left Handed?” The column inquired, “Do your friends look upon you as being—well, just a bit ‘queer’ because you're different, even in this little respect, from the rest of humanity?” The piece assured left-handed readers that they were in “illustrious company” with pharaohs, Caesars, and Alexander the Great, as well as southpaw baseball players like Babe Ruth and 1926 World Series hero Willie Sherdel. “As a matter of fact,” the article concluded, a lot of this belief about the ‘queerness’ of left handed people is mere superstition.”
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