Clipping:Legal and illegal under hand throw deliveries

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Date Sunday, March 14, 1875
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[reporting on the NA convention] In regard to the delivery of the ball the typographical error which marked the wording in the printed rule of last year, and which consisted of inserting the word “to” instead of “at,” was corrected, and the rule now reads so as to require the pitcher to deliver the ball with the arm swinging “nearly perpendicular at the side of the body, and with the hand swung forward, not raised higher than the hip.” This excludes the illegitimate underhand-throwing of last season, but allows of the legal underhand-throwing practiced by McBride, Spalding, Mathews, Cummings, and the other prominent pitcher.

Source Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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