When I was a rookie, some 22 years ago, I remember this being discussed as a recent change. Not sure exactly how recent, at that point, the change was - but apparently the rule was not that you had to step on with the hands separated, but rather that you had to pause with the ball and hand in glove for at least a second, similar to the U-Trip rule posted above.
So I suspect this changed somewhere around 1990-1993.
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