“ To get to the bottom of this mystery — and it’s one of baseball’s best mysteries — you’ll have to return to the source. You’ll have to return to the 19th century, and find out what baseball men were saying then about throwing left-handed and catching. Because today’s managers and coaches aren’t even thinking about this. They’re merely doing what everyone else has done for more than a century.”
— Rob Neyer on path dependence in baseball
