3rd to 1st Move Becomes a Balk - The Official Forum

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Mon Jan 28, 2013, 06:46pm

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Originally Posted by egj13

So basically we as umpires weren't calling it consistently so baseball simply made it illegal at all times to take it out of our hands.

As others have already pointed out, this account of the motivation for the change is incorrect. MLB doesn't care how you call your games or how anyone else might use their rules.

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