Hidden ball trick

[GarthB]

Originally posted by mick

Tee,
The "live ball" requirement for the balk is missing in LL rules.
Trying to sell anything about requiring a live ball for a balk to most anyone, from your partner to the local Board of Directors, would be pretty darn tough.
There are not enough knowlegable umpires, managers, coaches working the kids' league to force Little League baseball to bring their manuals, casebooks and rule books up to snuff.

There's no written backup anywhere, ...I think.
mick

I know very little about LL so I sent this post to some umpires I know who work LL to fairly high levels as well as upper level real baseball. Here's one response I got:

"This is idiocy. The rule is the same. "

Interesting.