Clipping:What is a legal delivery
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| Date | Saturday, January 10, 1874 |
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| Text | A “square” pitch is made by the swing of the arm while it is kept as nearly straight as possible, and while it swings perpendicularly to the side of the body of the pitcher as he himself stands in an upright position. This is an underhand pitch. A “round-arm” pitch–as in cricket–is made by a similar swing, so far as the arm being nearly straight, but with the arm swinging at an angle of forty-five degrees from the body–or of less of a side-swing, but nevertheless such a swing as to take the arm from the perpendicular motion of a square underhand pitch. A “jerk” is made when the arm is swung forward, as in the case of an underhand pitch, but at the same time is allowed to touch the side of the body, by which means an additional impetus is given it. By jerking, however, the ball can never be delivered so swiftly as by an underhand throw, nor so accurately. But as jerking can never be brought in use advantageously, its prohibition is needless. Any style of overhand throwing, however, should be rules out, as it enables a man to send in a ball more swiftly and accurately than any other style of delivery. We have consequently, stopped at this point; and in addition, in order to enable the umpire to decide clearly as to the legal style of delivery, we have allowed the ball to be delivered in any way that the pitcher chooses, except by a direct overhand throw, and except by the round-arm style of the bowling delivery peculiar to cricket–the latter being ruled out for the rules that in the perpendicular swing of the arm the pitcher has all the latitude for underhand throwing he needs for speed in strategic pitching, without getting in a disguised overhand throw, as he might were he allowed a round-arm swing. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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