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LH Throwing Third Baseman
From Google Groups
If you include all of baseball history, Hick Carpenter, who played from 1059 of his 1118 career games at 3B despite the handicap of being left handed. It doesn’t seem to have hurt him too badly, either; his .853 FP was actually a hair better than the league norm of .849 (!) and his RF of 3.25 was only a bit lower than the league average of 3.30. Carpenter is the only “real” left handed 3B in MLB history. There have been 50 other lefties to play at least one game at 3B, but their career total is only 597 games, so Carpenter played almost twice as many games as a TL 3B as the rest of the lefties in MLB history combined. Of the 51 left handed throwers to play 3B in MLB history, just 9 debuted after the AL was founded: Hal Chase (1 G at 3B), Milo Netzel (6 G), Duffy Lewis (1), George Sisler (2), Charlie Grimm (1), Mike Squires (14), Terry
Francona (1), Don Mattingly (3), and Mario Valdez (1). That’s just 29 games,

LH Throwing Shortstops
From Wiki Answers:

There are far more and more recent examples of left-handed throwing 3B and 2B than there are SS. Since 1970 Don Mattingly, Mike Squires, even pitcher Sam McDowell – all lefty throwers played a game or two at 3B or 2B but never at SS. The last lefty throwing SS I could find is George Van Haltren: http://www.baseball-reference.com/v/vanhage01.shtml

He played 79 games at SS pre-1900 – all in the National League. I found no American League left handed throwing shortstops.

LH Throwing Second Baseman
I can find no LH Throwing Second Baseman that played more than 3 games except the following:

Wee Willie Keeler, a Hall of Famer, played second base, third and shortstop 71 times over his 19-year career from 1892 through 1910.

Hal Chase, normally a first baseman, played 36 games at second base between 1905 and 1916.

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