Clipping:Holding the runner; a balk move?

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Date Wednesday, September 24, 1884
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Murphy, the Philadelphia Club’s new pitcher, has a novel way of keeping base-runners on their bases. He is a right-handed pitcher, but when he gets a man on first base, he takes a position of a left-handed man, and by false motions forces the base-runner to hub the base; then, quick as thought, he turns completely around (to the left) using his right foot as a pivot, and delivers the ball. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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