The greatest left-handed hitters in Major League Baseball history generated nightmares for both righty and southpaw pitchers. Who among the 25 men spotlighted in this piece you believe to be the best of the bunch likely depends on preferred traits among batters. Some, for example, see batting average and on-base percentage as vital statistical categories. Others, to steal the famous phrase, dig the long ball.
The majority of the names on the list, if not all of them, are familiar even to casual fans of the sport. It is probably no surprise that the game's biggest personality sits high atop the mountain as the king of all left-handed hitters. Because of mythological stories and also the fact that most of the people reading this sentence never saw the man play, some either forget or fail to realize how dominant he was at the plate.
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