This was a problem I didn’t have in my playing days. I was a righthander—one of those exasperating, infuriating creatures called a sidearmer, and I used the crossfire almost all the time. I found that it didn’t make any difference whether I was pitching to righthanded batters or lefties; they just couldn’t pick up my pitches because of my delivery. I threw a hard slider, a knuckle-curve, several different changeups (my favorite was the “Bugs Bunny” change), a slip-pitch (this was the slider thrown with a knuckleball grip), a good curveball, and I mixed them up. I remembered one thing my wise and wonderful pitching coach had told me: “Move the ball around—high, low, inside, outside, work the corners, change speeds, mix up your pitches, and stay away from the middle of the plate.” And that crossfire—it was such a kick to see the batters swing and miss and lose their balance and fall over backward on the tush with their arms and legs up in the air! :baseballpitcher: