The first ambidextrous player?

So apparently the Yankees are considering calling up from the minors some pitcher named Pat Venditte. His claim to faim is that he's an "ambidextrous" pitcher, maybe even the first of his kind.

That's total bullshit. Have the Yankees really forgotten about me? Your ol' Babe was the first ambidextrous pitcher. For the first few years, I pitched, and pitched great. I would've won the equivalent of the Cy Young Award two or three times if it'd been around. (In fact, they probably woulda named it the Babe Ruth Award.)

Then, after I got tired of pitching, I became a hitter, and the rest is history. I truly dominated.

So I was first a star pitcher, then a megastar hitter. That's about as ambidextrous as you can get!