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Old Thu Mar 13, 2008, 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by Rufus
My question is about balks and how to instruct my pitchers not to do it and what the players should look for when they are base runners. I understand that there is (legal) deception involved when trying to pick someone off a base so I'm not trying to take that out of the game. I am, however, wanting to make the players (and myself) as knowledgeable as I can about a facet of the game that is new to them this year and, based on my research of prior postings on this site, subject to some controversy.
Gotta watch who you're listening to on this forum.

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...would appreciate any guidance you could provide from your experiences and/or common mistakes/legal moves you've seen while umpiring.

Thanks in advance.
Drop me an email at:

http://tinyurl.com/yobtd9

and I will send you back a phone number, we can talk you through this. Used to teach this sorta class all the time, coaches, parents, kids, lotta fun, lotta learning
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