Clipping:Interpreting the new balk rule

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Date	Wednesday, January 26, 1887
Text	[from Caylor’s column] If the pitcher makes the feint to throw to first it will do him no good, for while he recovers himself and resumes his position the base-runner, who may have been driven back to the base by the feint, has time to again “take ground.” The feint cannot, under the rules, drive a base-runner back and hold him there while the pitcher delivers the ball with the same motion--a trick Morris had to perfection. As it is now the pitcher gains no advantage by making the feint, and that is partially what is meant by “any motion calculated to deceive the base-runner.” It also means any motion calculated to make the base-runner believe the delivery has begun, and on which belief he makes a start for the next base.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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