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Justme,
Every league we work here (many), except for high school, uses OBR, and that is our only required reference. If you used PBUC interps here, coaches (and most umpires for that matter) would say, "what's a PBUC?". The PBUC is for Minor League Baseball, and certainly isn't recognized by most amatuer programs. The same goes for the BRD. Tell a high school coach you're quoting a BRD interpretation, and you'll get the same thing, "what is a BRD, and what does it have to do with the rules?" That is my point. Why don't we just put it in the rules and be done with it. It's great that we have the resources, but not everyone else is familiar with them, that's all I'm saying.
greymule,
OBR hasn't changed much, that's for sure. 1973 with the DH rule, and several changes to the strike zone over the years, and that's it. We get to use the same old book, with the same old errors, and are not given uniform access to the interpretations, so nobody ends up on the same page.
You can't expect every umpire to invest in every manual out there, it just isn't practical. You would then have to furnish copies to every coach, or else grief would surely follow.
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Matthew 15:14, 1 Corinthians 1:23-25
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