There's really no good "reason" here, and people keep making up superfluous descriptions, like the whole deal about ordinal baseball diamond orientations. Or, i

There's really no good "reason" here, and people keep making up superfluous descriptions, like the whole deal about ordinal baseball diamond orientations. Or, in boxing, how the southpaw stance has the left hand below ("south") the right. The real answer appears to be that "south" merely means "opposite" and "paw" means—of course—"hand".[1] [1] http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/southpaw http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/southpaw