Rule or Myth...or Both?

[DG]

Originally posted by tmp44
OK..here's the sitch that spawned this. Watching a Varsity FED game today. F1, in windup, steps back to begin the windup, begins to pivot, then just steps off the mound. What do you have? Since it's FED, just a dead ball w/ no penalty (this is what the Us gave BTW)?

In Fed it is an illegal pitch when the pitcher commits an act that would be a balk with runners on, penalty is a called ball. In OBR it's "don't do that".