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~Sigh~
99% of you are too young to remember the following:
In the early 1960's pitcher Stan Williams had a strange mastery over the vaunted New York Yankees.
The Yankees could barely place wood to ball for some unknown reason.
Casey Stengel fretted and fretted as his team failed, miserably, to figure out Williams.
Then Stengel had a stroke of genius.
The next time Williams pitched old #37 slowly walked to the plate and filed a strong complaint with the UIC.
"He loses contact with the pitcher's plate (knowing Casey he probably intoned: "the fuc . . . is not on the rubber!") during his movement from wind-up to delivery."
Well, IT WORKED . . . Williams got so worked up he failed miserably in the next few times against the The Bronx Bombers.
Said Stengel later: "I just wanted to mess him up!"
Please guys disregard all of UmpJim's post. It is flat out wrong.
We don't work girls softball with the famous "crow hop" deliveries.
Not being in contact with the pitcher's plate during the tranfer is NORMAL and not illegal.
T
BTW, eventually the Pinstipes traded for Williams and he had a couple of marginally successful seasons in New York.
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