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  2. Spitball - Wikipedia

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    The spitball is now banned in Major League baseball. [1] It is a pitching violation in NCAA Baseball. [7] However, it is still sometimes thrown in violation of the rules. In 1942, Leo Durocher, then-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, fined Bobo Newsom for throwing a spitball and "lying to me about it." Typically, a lubricant is hidden behind the ...

  3. Cheating in baseball - Wikipedia

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    Major League Baseball (MLB) banned the emery ball in 1914 and banned the spitball in 1920. [2] At the time the spitball was banned, 17 active pitchers were allowed to continue to throw the pitch through a grandfather clause; the last of these was Burleigh Grimes, who played until 1934. [3]

  4. Me and the Spitter - Wikipedia

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    By the 1973 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, Gaylord Perry, a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, was widely suspected of throwing a spitball, an illegal pitch where the pitcher applies a foreign substance to the ball to change how it moves; the practice had been banned by MLB in 1920. [1] [2] The pitch is difficult to hit because it ...

  5. Gaylord Perry - Wikipedia

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    Perry also showed Sudyk how he hid additives on his uniform and body. The book, titled Me and the Spitter, was released in 1974. [33] Before the 1974 season, Major League Baseball added to Rule 8.02, now nicknamed "Gaylord's Rule", allowing umpires to call an automatic ball if they suspected a spitball, and eject the pitcher on the second offense.

  6. Are the pitch clock and spitball crackdown to blame for MLB’s ...

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    “The league’s unwillingness thus far to acknowledge or study the effects of these profound changes is an unprecedented threat to our game and its most valuable asset — the Players.”

  7. 2021 pitch doctoring controversy - Wikipedia

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    Beau Sulser of the Indianapolis Indians submits to a random, routine check for foreign substances after an inning of a game on June 27, 2021.. The 2021 pitch doctoring controversy arose in Major League Baseball (MLB) around pitchers' use of foreign substances, such as the resin-based Spider Tack, to improve their grip on the baseball and the spin rate on their pitches.

  8. Adjust pace of play rules for MLB postseason? Don’t ... - AOL

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    The pitch clock is the greatest thing that has happened to Major League Baseball in decades, having trimmed nearly 30 minutes — most of it inactive time that nobody should lament missing — off ...

  9. Emery ball - Wikipedia

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    Following the discovery of the emery ball, Griffith began to call for outlawing the spitball, [15] which occurred after the 1919 season. In the rules of baseball, Rule 8.02(6) specifically bars "what is called the shine ball, spit ball, mud ball or emery ball."