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Originally posted by Blue37
Change the rules is one thing, adding one is a different subject. Many leagues add a bat slinging rule in the lower age groups. [/B]
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Tomahto/tomato Why is adding a rule different from deleting a rule or modifying a rule? All three are prohibited in Dixie (which was the original question). If I am wrong, please share your Dixie credentials and I will let my State Umpire-In-Chief know he is wrong. [/B][/QUOTE]I have never seen a Dixie Youth game, but in my distant past I have been a local league president for 5 years and a Babe Ruth District Commissioner for 3 and unless Dixie is vastly different the state umpire in chief has no say so on running local leagues, and the District and State Commissioners want to keep the local leagues happy so they don't defect to some competing organization, therefore they don't get involved in how the local league is run. When it comes time for District and State tournaments all the local league rules go out the window and the games are played by the book. If, during the 5 years I was a league president the state umpire told me I could not add a local league rule that the league board wanted to add for safety purposes, there would have been at least 3 other organizations in my area that would have loved to have a 28 team league playing in age groups 7-15 to join them. Perhaps Dixie is so anal that they let the state umpire run their leagues and that is why there are not many Dixie leagues in these parts. I seriously doubt it, but again, I have no experience with Dixie.