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Originally posted by PeteBooth
About 5 yrs ago or there abouts, MLB issued a memo to the umpires to start calling more balks because they felt F1's were getting away with too much. In the forst 6 months of that year more balks were called then in the previous year.
The players association got involved and basically said "this is OUR game and go back to the old way of calling things" if you want to umpire in OUR league.
Pete Booth
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Pete: Don't I wish you were right!
In fact, the rule change occurred in 1988 and was in place for one year until the player's union voted it down.
The rule was "complete and discernible balk," and the umpires called, as you indicated, twice as many balks.
But at my age, I cetainly wish 1988 was "about five years ago."