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Originally posted by Yeggman
In the local girls FP leagues I'm working where everyone bats, what about ASA rule 8-10-C which says courtesy runner must be someone who has not participated in the game in any capacity?
Does this mean I should not allow any courtesy runners, or would this be a league rule I need to find out about during pre-game?
yeggman
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You need to find out the league rule. Most of the time, when leagues adopt the "everybody bats" rule they haven't thought through all of the implications, so there may not be anything written regarding CR.
I have called "everybody bats" leagues / tournament where they specifically said the CR would be the last out. I've called otheres where they specifically said no CR's would be allowed (although this was in a tournament where the coaches had the choice of standard sub rules or everybody bats/unlimited defensive subs/noCRs.)
If there is nothing in writing, then I would say so at the plate meeting to both coaches, and tell them that if there are no objections, I will be allowing "last out" as a CR to speed up the game. If one coach objects, though, then I would fall back to the written rule book - no CRs since everybody is by rule "in the game."