jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) (06/04/85)
I seem to recall that a batter could reach first on a bases empty balk. This rule may have changed recently, but you wouldn't see it invoked much, since pitchers don't make balkish moves with no runners on. Following this scenario, a pitcher might make 27 false moves to the plate, and 27 pick-off plays to first. Of course this is not real man's baseball, but the last real man who pitched was Old Hoss Radbourn in 1886.
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (06/04/85)
> Of course this is not real man's baseball, but the last > real man who pitched was Old Hoss Radbourn in 1886. Real man?!? Then why did he pitch from only 45 feet from the plate?!? David Rubin