Clipping:The legality of underhand throwing

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Date	Saturday, January 24, 1874
Text	In the comments made on Rule Fifth by a writer in a Philadelphia paper, he mistakenly asserts that the rule of underhand throwing never has passed a convention. Now, the rule of delivery which unanimously passed the Baltimore convention of March, 1872, was as follows: “Rule Second.–Sec. 3. Whenever the player delivering the ball to the bat shall throw it by an overhand or round-arm throw, the umpire shall declare a foul balk.” Now, this is the only deliver which was then prohibited. As for returning to the old wording, that is useless, inasmuch as it opens the door to endless disputes as to what an umpire thinks constitutes a throw; and if square pitching were enforced, the ball would be knocked all over the field, and an end would be put to the fine fielding games incident to the underhand throw delivery.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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