Clipping:Balk moves 2
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| Date | Saturday, March 30, 1889 |
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| Text | [from an article on the new rules by Chadwick] ...whenever [the pitcher] makes a feint to throw to a base other than home base, after making such feint he must resume his original position and make a pause before he can legally deliver the ball to the bat; besides which he also commits a balk if he makes “any motion calculated to deceive a base-runner.” The strict definition of this special clause in the rules governing the pitcher renders it necessary for the pitcher to be careful in his preliminary motions in delivery. In fact, he will find it difficult to avoid making a balk unless he stands still in his position and, looking at the catcher, throws to first base by signal only. The pitcher must bear in mind the fact that the rules make a difference between a balk following the failure of the pitcher to deliver the ball after making any one of the regular preliminary motions he is accustomed to make in throwing the ball to the bat, and the balk—technically known as an “illegal delivery”--which is consequent upon his delivering the ball to the bat while stepping outside his box, or from failing to pause after making a feint to throw to a base. In the first case balks from a failure to deliver give all base-runners a base, but not the batsman; while balks from an illegal delivery give the batsman as well as the base-runners a base. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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