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Old Mon Jun 27, 2005, 09:45am
David B David B is offline
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Re: I found it in the book - thanks for the help

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Originally posted by Mista Bone
Alright, I'll eat a plate of crow, here. After the post, I grabbed the rulebook and an old study guide I had from 10 years ago. I found this "easy" one at 6.05 (b) in the explanatory paragraph.

My apologies for the arrogance comment. Your frustration with this one is justified. I swear I've read sections 6, 7 and 8 5 times this summer but that never stuck with me.

I'd still appreciate any links to good sites with FAQs, etc., or a good book that goes into more situational detail than the official book.
New umpires I always teach:

1st -learn (don't just study) all of the definitions until you can nearly quote them verbatim.

2nd - always be careful to read all of the little footnotes, additions and other small print - usually that's something that was added later or a change from the large print.

but I'll agree with you, sometimes its hard to find things in a rule book no matter how hard you try.

Thanks
David
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