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Originally Posted by parrothead
When I was doing HS in 90's and 00's I seemed to recall them having some different appeal process (or no appeal at all). I believe for a time, the umpire would just make a dead ball call, like "runner left early" - had a guy who loved to make that call and then I think for a while there might of been just a verbal appeal where you didnt have to throw it.
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Yep - there was a time the umpires just called it. No appeal of any kind.
FED allows verbal dead ball appeals now. plus the "normal" way.