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Originally Posted by Jim Mills
Right you are. The National Club Baseball Association, which consists of university-sponsored extramural club teams playing under NCAA eligibility rules and modified NCAA playing rules, has a malicious contact rule that is defined (contact with the head or neck is malicious by rule; no umpire judgment beyond whether such contact occurred is required), and they have no FPSR. Au contraire, they specifically allow for aggressive contact to break up a potential double play, or a tag play at the plate. They also do not prohibit tobacco.
Among the several which I am paid to work, it is by far the most pleasurable rules set to administer.
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The universtity may provides some sponsorship, but the the players pay to play and the teams around here have to pay for community owned field use instead of playing on the university field, even on weekends when it is not in use.