The correct title is merely "Some Southpaw Pitching" and it was written as one of Ives' piano studies in 1908. Other baseball pieces by Ives are: "All The Way Around And Back" (1906) a short orchestral piece- the batter hits what looks like a homer and the runner on first makes it all the way around to third, but it's a foul ball, at which point the "run" retrogrades in diminuated form. "Baseball Take-off" (1898) The pianist literally "hits a home run" by slamming a baseball bat down onto the keyboard. A few stray, quiet notes struck afterward depict the homer sailing through the sky. Uncle Dave Lewis [log in to unmask]