Clipping:Delivery point raised to the shoulder

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Date	Sunday, December 10, 1882
Text	The Association should do something to definitely settle the question of the height of a pitcher’s arm–either to fix a penalty to keep it down or allow it, in express words, to go as high as the shoulder but no higher, under a fixed and well-defined penalty. As the League have it, there is no penalty to prohibit a pitcher from throwing over his head, and the higher you allow them to go the more they will encroach upon the privilege. Cincinnati Commercial December 10, 1882 [reporting on the NL meeting] The playing rules were amended to the effect that the pitcher's hand, in delivering the ball, must pass below the shoulder instead of the waist. The Philadelphia Item December 10, 1882 [reporting on the AA meeting] The class 3, rule 23 was changed by leaving out the words, “arm swinging nearly perpendicular by his side,” and the word “waist” was changed to “shoulder,” thereby admitting of any delivery of the ball to the bat below the line of the pitcher's shoulder. The Philadelphia Item December 17, 1882
Source	Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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