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While substitutes are to be listed on a line-up card, failure to do so does not disqualify a legal roster player from taking part in a game.
When the coach gave a re-entry, the umpire should have asked for whom. That would have legitimized the substitute AND make the umpire, and probably the coach, aware of what just happened. Then, when the second attempt occured, good preventive officiating would have prevented the illegal substitution to occur.
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The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
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