Clipping:A questionable delivery; but everyone does it

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Date	Saturday, August 3, 1878
Text	The manager of the Lowells threatens to appeal to the Judiciary Committee of the International Association as to the legality of the pitching of Sullivan of the Rochesters, asserting that the umpire admitted that Sullivan’s delivery was illegal. Mr. Wilbur, who umpired the games in which Sullivan pitched, publishes the following card: “I did not assert that Sullivan’s pitching was illegal. On the contrary, I told, not only the Lowell nine, but several other nines, that his pitching was in conformity with the present custom, and if other pitchers–Leary, McCormick, Ward and others–were allowed to keep their places in the centre of the diamond, I, for one, could see no reason why Sullivan also should not be allowed.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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