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Some of the guys in our association take that same view--that anything not in the usual delivery of the pitcher and meant to deceive should be called illegal. For example, one well-known area pitcher (also an ump, but a bad one) throws three or four pitches a game by starting with the ball out in front of his body and then taking a full revolution and delivering on the first pass of the hip. They maintain that such a delivery is illegal; I maintain that a pitcher can throw 17 different ways as long as they're all legal.
In SP, the pitcher can take a step in any direction, and, as far as I know, vary that direction from pitch to pitch.
Don't have the book with me, but I'm not sure he even has to take a step. I'm sure that some guys present the ball and then rock and deliver without an actual step. I've never seen that called illegal.
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