Lefty

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Lefty

Background

Lefty is a retired pitcher in Chicago, Illinois. He used to play for the Chicago Cubs before an arm injury made him retire.

During the events of The Twilight Zone: Season 1 Episode 12 What You Need played by Ernest Truex

Pidott walks up to the bar and Lefty asks him what he has for sale. Pidott lists a few things and Lefty tells him, what he needs Pidott doesn't have. Lefty says he needs a new arm and the Bartender tells Pidott about how Lefty used to be a pitcher. Pidott hands Lefty a bus ticket to Scranton, Pennsylvania. Someone calls for Lefty on the bar phone and after Lefty answers it and hangs it up, he tells the Bartender that an old manager had been looking for him for three weeks and offered him a job as an assistant coach in Scranton. Lefty notices a stain on his only jacket and a Woman at Bar walks over to him and offers her bottle of cleaner.