“Ohio voters to decide issue of judges’ age; Retirement at 75, not 70, on Nov. 8 ballot”: Jim Provance of The Toledo Blade has this report.

And today in The Columbus Dispatch, Joe Hallett has an article headlined “Justice McGee Brown has made plenty of friends on court.”

“U.S. Supreme Court again rejects most decisions by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; Judges in the circuit’s nine Western states are more liberal than the high court justices, who reversed or vacated 19 of the 26 decisions they examined for the last term”: Carol J. Williams will have this article Monday in The Los Angeles Times.

“Supreme Court follows law, not ideology”: Leon F. DeJulius Jr. has this op-ed today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Healthy dissent reviving on state Supreme Court”: Columnist Robert Robb has this op-ed today in The Arizona Republic.

“U.S. Supreme Court order jeopardizes inmate fire crews”: This article appears today in The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California.

“State refuses to pay citrus canker awards; Law invoked to avoid millions awarded by juries”: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel contains this article today.

“Kansas groups push stricter abortion limits”: This article appears today in The Wichita Eagle.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Pulling the rug out from underneath gay adoption.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

Switch-hitter, meet switch-pitcher: Saturday evening, my family and I traveled to Waterfront Park in Trenton, New Jersey to watch the Reading Phillies (the AA Eastern League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies) visit the Trenton Thunder (the AA Eastern League affiliate of the New York Yankees).

As luck would have it — since we purchased our tickets weeks ago — both Shane Victorino and Brad Lidge of the Philadelphia Phillies were on rehab assignments with Reading and appeared in the game. Victorino was 3 for 5 at the plate and Lidge pitched a scorless inning, recording a strikeout. Reading defeated Trenton by a score of 13-2. You can access the box score at this link, while a recap of the game can be accessed here.

The highlight of the game for me, however, was the appearance of Thunder relief pitcher Pat Venditte, who is described as “the only ambidextrous pitcher in professional baseball.” He throws right-handed, except when he decides to throw left-handed. And, to accommodate the feat, he uses “a six-finger glove with two thumb holes.” Pitching right-handed, his fastball can reach 94 miles per hour. His delivery as a left-hander is sidearm. He may prefer to throw right-handed, as that’s what he elected to do when facing switch-hitting batters. Wikipedia provides more details on Venditte in an entry you can access here.

Additional press coverage of Venditte can be accessed here, here, here, here, and here.