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Originally Posted by Dave Hensley
I don't recall ever seeing a malicious hit at any age less than 15, but I usually get one or two a year at the teenage/high school level.
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I could send you some tapes, 2 events, 2 different years, players age 10 and 11. I submitted these tapes to Babe Ruth baseball and requested the rules be changed (Babe Ruth did not recognize MC at the time), and they were about 2 years later. I hope my tapes helped.
The catcher was my son in both cases. The first one was in a 10 year old all star tournament and he was making his 2nd start ever at catcher (there is a story for that also) so clearly this was his first experience with being crashed. He went to the ground still holding the ball in his glove, jumped up removed the ball from his glove with his right hand and dropped it on the other boy's chest who was still laying on the ground, without saying a word. A catcher was born that day.