[Mountaincoach]

Originally Posted by BretMan

What you "know" actually isn't true at all.

There has never been a rule that said a foul ball had to travel any given height before it could be caught as a fly ball for an out. That was a rule myth, one of those misperceptions that got repeated over and over again.

What the old rule said was that if a batted ball went higher than the batter's head, then it could not be ruled as a foul tip. Somehow, people twisted that around to assume that a pop foul had to go a certain height, when what it was actually saying was that a foul tip could NOT go a certain height.

Regardless, NFHS doesn't have anything in their rule about any batted ball going "higher than the batter's head". My recollection is that they removed that from the foul tip definition about a year after ASA did (but I'd have to dig through my old rule books to confirm that).

Interesting. Amazing how myths like that take off. Thanks.