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| Date | Thursday, November 25, 1886 |
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| Text | [reporting on the meeting of the joint rules committee 11/16/1886] The pitcher's box shall in future measure five and a half instead of five feet, and the pitcher will be required to stand with his right foot, if he be a right handed pitcher, or his left foot, if he be a left-handed pitcher, upon the rear line of the box and his other foot advanced upon a direct line in front of him or a little to the left of a direct line. He must hold the ball before him ,and will not be permitted to hold it behind himself nor at his hip. He can swing himself around upon his rear foot to throw to bases, but must assume proper position again before delivering the ball over the plate, and but one step forward, and that, too, inside the lines of his box, can be taken in his delivery. The Sporting News November 25, 1886 [reporting on the meeting of the joint rules committee 11/16/1886] The amendments made to the rule governing the delivery of the ball to the bat are, we think, well calculated to relieve the base-runners from the obstacle to successful running which they had to encounter last season through the latitude given pitchers under the balking rule of the past code. Now the pitcher is prohibited from making any attempt to throw to a base while he is in his defined position for delivering the ball to the bat, and this position is that of standing squarely in the box, with his forward foot kept on the ground. He can throw to a base before taking this position of delivery but not then, this new rule putting a stop to those feints of pitching which were allowed last season. Moreover, the pitcher can only take one step in delivery now, and this step must be taken with a space of five and a half feet by four, instead of seven by four, as last year. New York Clipper November 27, 1886 |
| Source | Sporting News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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