BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…June 5, 2015, 10 years ago today:

Pat Venditte makes his big league debut for the Oakland A’s , and in the process becomes the first true ambidextrous pitcher to appear in the majors in modern baseball history. Wearing a special six-fingered glove, Venditte pitched two scoreless innings in relief in the A’s 4-2 loss to Boston and threw 16 pitches from the right side and 12 from the left. He allowed one hit and had one strikeout. It was certainly a unique moment. The East Oregonian newspaper in Pendleton mistakenly reported Venditte’s milestone outing with the headline, “Amphibious Pitcher Makes Debut.”

Venditte already had a baseball rule named after him. When he made his minor league debut in the New York Yankees system with Staten Island against the

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