Is it time to end the charade? Many professional pitchers use a foreign substance when they throw. Should it be allowed?

Salt Lake Bees pitcher John Lamb takes umbrage at the absurdity of the moment almost four years later. Pitching for Omaha on a humid July day in New Orleans, an umpire ejected Lamb in a one-run game for supposedly throwing at a batter. As Lamb recalls, he’d given up a home run then sailed a curveball behind the batter as he struggled to grip the ball. Lamb’s memory of the moment was refreshed this month when Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer sparked a discussion with social medi