Clipping:What is a balk
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| Date | Saturday, January 10, 1874 |
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| Text | In regard to balking, it should be clearly understood that a balk is committed whenever the pitcher makes any motion to deliver the ball to the bat, and fails so to deliver it. Every pitcher has a certain series of movements in deliver; and if he makes any one of these movements with the arm with which he delivers the ball, whether the ball is in his hand or not, he commits a balk. He also commits a balk whenever he delivers the ball by an outward swing of the arm, as in round-arm bowling; whenever he throws a ball by an overhand throw; whenever, in making any movement to deliver, he steps outside the lines of his position. Within the six-foot square of space he has ample room for any movement for a fair delivery, and within this space he must be from the time he makes his first motion to deliver the ball until the time the ball leaves his hand, or he commits a balk. New York Clipper January 10, 1874 batter intentionally letting the ball hit him In reference to dead balls, it will be seen that, by the new reading of the rule, every ball is considered dead that accidentally touches the bat, or that hits the person of either batsman or umpire. It is time that the contemptible style of play some batsmen indulge in, of trying to assist base-runners by standing so as to allow the ball to strike them, should be put a stop to. To leave it to the umpire to decide whether the obstruction on the part of the batsman was intended or not, affords no remedy for the evil. The only way is to make the ball dead, and then neither the fielding nor the batting side gain anything by the decision. New York Clipper January 10, 1874 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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