Thread: Ground rules - whose responsibility to establish
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Old Thu May 11, 2017, 08:45pm
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Originally Posted by RKBUmp View Post
The home coach makes the ground rules for the field and they should have been gone over in the pregame meeting. But, ground rules cannot supersede book rules.
And the umpire defines the DBL if the home coach does not or, as in travel ball, there is no actual home coach.

Good basic point - "an enclosure to keep a ball in play should not be considered DBT"
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