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A hidden ball trick is a play in which a player deceives the opposing team about the location of the ball. Hidden ball tricks are most commonly observed in baseball , where the defence deceives the runner about the location of the ball, to tag out the runner.
Treadway attended the University of Georgia and played baseball for the Bulldogs from 1982 to 1983. He is one of the few major leaguers to have successfully completed the hidden ball trick, accomplishing it at least twice. [3] [4] After leaving major league baseball, Treadway managed the minor league Macon Braves for two seasons starting in 1999.
John Joseph Burdock (April 1852 – November 27, 1931), nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for several teams over a 20-year playing career. Burdock was known as a skilled fielder, and he recorded the first known out on a major-league hidden ball trick.
Major League Baseball has decided to enforce rules already on the books to stop pitchers from doctoring the baseball, beginning with Monday’s games. Pitchers caught applying substances will be ...
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Barrett successfully pulled off the hidden ball trick three times, including twice in July 1985. [1] In 1984, Barrett batted a career-high .303 in his first full season. But his most productive year was 1986, when he posted career-highs in RBI (60), hits (179), doubles (39), triples (4), stolen bases (15) and games played (158). [2]
The hidden ball trick is a play in which the runner is deceived about the location of the ball, in an effort to tag him out. Although no known comprehensive list is known to exist of all times when the hidden ball trick has worked, Coughlin reportedly pulled it off seven times (and at three different positions) -- more than any other player in ...
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