You may never have heard of Pat Venditte. Pat is a "switch pitcher" for the Creighton Blue Jay baseball team. He grew up in Omaha and is the little brother of one of the guys I hung around with during my time in Omaha back in the early 90's. Here's his Wikipedia entry and here's a snippet:
One of four children of Pat Sr. and Janet Venditte, Pat Jr. was born on June 30, 1985 in Omaha, Nebraska (Tooley & Shields 2007, p. 25). Pat Sr. noticed his son's ambidexterity when Pat Jr. was three years old, and encouraged vigorous ambidextrous athletic training throughout Pat Jr.'s childhood. Toward this end, the Venditte backyard included astroturf, a batting cage, a radar gun, and a pitching machine (Nicholl 2007). In addition to training both arms from a young age, Pat Jr. practiced punting footballs with both legs in order to establish the leg motion needed when pitching with each arm (Tooley & Shields 2007, p. 25).
I remember the batting cage being built across the street from his house, in a vacant lot his father had bought. In 1990-1991 or so, Pat's brother asked me if I wanted to catch his little brother (Patty, they called him) and I thought, "Sure. What the hell. What can a little 4 (5)-year old throw? It'll be kind of cute."
WHACK! OW!
Cute, my ass. That little kid had a good arm, good enough for the Yanks to draft him 15-16 years later.