Why Is Southpaw Called Southpaw. I m guessing that you re asking me instead of an etymologist because you heard the word used in the context of a sporting event. The term southpaw has early origins in baseball too where it referred to any left handed player but especially a left handed pitcher.
Rather the term was used as early as 1848 to describe simply the left hand or a punch or blow given with the left hand. This got us wondering. This is often referred to as a southpaw stance according to wikipedia only about 7 to 10 percent of the population is left handed and many of those exhibit some degree of ambidexterity.
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That s apropos because the term comes from sports baseball in particular and was first used to refer to the handedness of a pitcher in particular. The american heritage dictionary of the english language cites the conventional wisdom that the word southpaw originated from the practice in baseball of arranging the diamond with the batter. Left handedness is also referred to as cack handed or ciotog or south paw. The term southpaw has early origins in baseball too where it referred to any left handed player but especially a left handed pitcher.
