Clipping:Bechtel's balk move
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Date | Sunday, August 23, 1868 |
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Text | [Keystone vs. Mutual 8/22/1868] Bechtel has a trick of stopping as if to pitcher, but instead of delivering the ball he takes up a pinch of gravel. The movement is such as to deceive the players running the bases, and is, in fact, made with that intention. He tried this while Galvin and Stockman were running the bases, and the former immediately called for “judgment on the balk.” The “balk” was declared by the umpire, whereupon Mr. Connor, of the Keystones, wanted to know “how it could be a 'balk' when there was no batter up?” It was a “balk” in accordance with section 3 of rule 2, which say, among other pints, “whenever the pitcher moves with the apparent purpose of pretension to deliver the ball he shall so deliver it, and if he fails in either of these particulars it shall be declared a balk. |
Source | New York Herald |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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