Clipping:Interpreting the new balk rule
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Date | Wednesday, January 26, 1887 |
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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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