Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Deception on the Pitcher's Part Message-ID: <1626@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 15:24:38 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1626 Posted: Mon Jun 27 15:24:38 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 15:39:19 EDT References: <447@houxm.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 6 I don't think it's legal. I remember the Toronto baseball commentators (Early Wynn and Tom Cheek, at the time) discussing it a couple of years ago. The standard trick used to be to throw a potato. Catchers were known to do it too. Dave Sherman