Clipping:Implementing the new pitching delivery rule; new balk rule
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| Date | Friday, May 1, 1885 |
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| Text | It struck the admirers of Dunlap and Sweeney as very curious, yesterday, that neither the captain nor the pitcher understood the new pitching rule until Umpire Cushman took the ball, assumed the pitching position, and made a diagram of a balk for both of them. St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 1, 1885 The initial game in the League championship race has developed one point to the satisfaction of both players and spectators, and that is that the new balk rule, or rather the construction of it, is a farce. Two bases were given a player on balks, and this because the pitcher moved his arm and touched the ball with his right hand after having taken his position. It leaves the pitcher but a poor show to catch a runner at the bases, and in this way destroys all interest at a place where a great portion of it is usually centered. After the pitcher has once taken his position, according to the construction of the rule, it is impossible for him to stop a man from running his base, because he must deliver it or have a balk called on him. The sooner this rule is revised the better it will be, as in its present shape it is entirely dissatisfactory. St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 2, 1885 |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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