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Originally Posted by GROUPthink
It changed in the 80s when they added the word "discernible" for one season and the umpires called a TON of balks. The players union, I believe, never approved the word discernible and it was removed the next season.
No More 'Discernible' Stop, So Balks Will Be Balks Again - Los Angeles Times
Once the word discernible disappeared, the pitchers still seemed to stop a lot better than they did prior to this change. |
Hey thanks! I think I kind of remember that now.
I wonder if certain umpires just let it fly and did whatever they liked before that? I cannot see any way for Rickey Henderson, Tim Raines, Lou Brock, etc to have been able to do what they did if what I saw on ESPN was typical.