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Sorry for offending, Tim. I assure you (and think I've proven over time here - ironically ON the internet) that I'm not just an internet umpire.
To me, this semantic difference is important, and is often the reason that otherwise good umpires (on the field, not the net) often get this rule wrong. (And OBR didn't help with their misprint). I stress this difference at both my umpires' clinics and my coaches' clinics.
When you tell someone there's no such rule about running out of a baseline, you make them think. You make them define what they really meant, and apply the rules to the case at hand
I guarantee that if there was no myth that running outside the baseline was illegal, the initial post would not have ever been a question in anyone's mind.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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