He also played two seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes.

[1] Leftwich was the first person to go into major league baseball from Radford University.

[1] In 1995 he was inducted into the Radford University Athletic Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class.

Leftwich was conceived in Virginia when his biological father, Tom Timmermann, was in town to play a road game against the Richmond Braves.

He first learned of his adoption at age 23, tracked down his father and established a relationship.