View source for Clipping:Legal pitching delivery under the professional and amateur rules

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=3/15/1874
|Title=legal pitching delivery under the professional and amateur rules
|Text=<p>The amateurs will hold a convention in New York some time this month, when it will be decided whether they will adopt the professional code of rules...  At the December convention they resolved to re-adopt the old rule governing the delivery of the ball, so as to read as follows:  Should the pitcher deliver the ball to the bat either by an underhand or overhand throw, or by a jerk, or by any form of a round-arm delivery, as in bowling in cricket, the umpire shall promptly call “foul balk.”...</p>
<p>The above materially differs from the rule of the newly adopted professional code, which is as follows:</p>
<p>Should the pitcher deliver the ball by an overhand throw, a “foul balk” shall be declared by the umpire.  Any outward swing of the arm–as in round-arm bowling in cricket–or any other swing of the arm save that made with the arm swinging perpendicularly to the side of the body, shall be considered an overhand throw.</p>
<p>This rule admits of the style of underhand throwing indulged in by McBride, Matthews, Cummings, Spalding, etc., but it does not allow of the side throw which amateur players introduced last season.  Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch March 15, 1874, quoting the Brooklyn Union.</p>
|Source=Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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