Thread: Awarding time
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Old Wed Jun 22, 2005, 03:51pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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dumbrumb - there is an enormous difference between an umpire contacted by a batted or thrown ball and an umpire who finds himself in POSSESSION or CONTROL of the ball. The latter is the one at issue in this thread.
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