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Thanks for posting this. Baseball history is incredibly interesting. 140 years of playing the "same game" on different sized diamonds with different sized and colored balls, and there are still new things happening every year.
I remind my mentees this very same thing: The infield fly rule exists to prevent the defense from stealing a double or triple play. Yes, the offense suffers one out, but it's there to protect the offense from multiple outs.
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