Thread: Fair or foul?
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Old Tue Mar 07, 2006, 04:51pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Then you've found it. The definition is all you need. There is nothing anywhere in the rule book to tell you to treat the mound or pitcher's plate any differently than any other patch of grass or dirt. The definition itself tells you that this ball is foul.
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