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For instance, New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle always considered himself a better right-handed hitter, but actually has more home runs batting left-handed. But it could be argued that this claim is misleading as many of Mantle's left-handed home runs were struck at Yankee Stadium, a park notorious for being very friendly to left-handed hitters due to the short right field porch.
This could also be misleading because a switch hitter typically bats far more often against Right handed pitchers resulting in higher cumulative totals as a left handed hitter. --Cglied 19:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Isn't Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves a switch-hitter, and one of the more accomplished ones? Zeus982 21:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
