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Dumb Rule
bluezebra: I'm going to guess that someone has come up with this "rule" as a so called safety feature. If the batter were to foul off a pitch it has more chance of going towards the ondeck cicle facing the batter. The batter may be "late" in swinging but he or she will never be so "early" that they will wrap the ball around to the circle behind the batter. I had a coach of a team that went to a tournament in FL call and ask me about ASA ruling on this very subject because the tournament allowed the ondeck batter to decide which circle she wanted to be using. I also referred the coach to the ruling Dakota mentions.
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