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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Concerning Balks. About 10 yrs ago or so there was a memorandum issued to the umpires I believe in Spring Training of that year to start calling Balks more in line with the "book definition"
As a result there were more balks called in 1/2 that year then in all of the previous year. The Players Union reacted and things went "back to normal"
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That would be the infamous balk year of 1988. It was Bob Davidson's favorite year.