Legend has it that a proposal was made to move it back to exactly 60' 0" (from 45' 0"). But due to sloppy handwriting, it looked like 60' 6" so they moved the mound back to that distance when constructing fields. For no apparent reason, they just decided to keep it that way.
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The year the pitching mound was introduced and the pitching distance was moved to 60 feet, 6 inches was 1893.
It's 60 feet 6 inches away from home plate. The original baseball field designers wanted it to be 60 feet but when the "landscapers" were reading the diagram drawn up it read 60 ' 0" and they read the 0 to be a 6 by mistake.
Ummm... 60 feet 6 inches.
60 feet, 6 inches
Should be regulation MLB baseball length. 60 ft 6 in.
60 feet 6 inches
60 feet 6 inches
60 feet 6 inches
the distance from the pitchers mound to home plate is 60 feet 6 inches.
Same as it is in the USA, 60 feet, 6 inches.
On a major league field it is 60 ft, 6 inches.
Same as today -- 60 feet, 6 inches.
60 feet 6 inches like the MLB
60 feet 6 inches.
60 feet and 6 inches between home plate and pichers rubber
60 feet 6 inches from the back of home plate
The pitching rubber is 60' 6" from home plate.