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I shouldn't have used the word "adopt" when referring to OBR looking to NFHS; rather, it would have been more correct to say that there are a few things OBR does not clearly state and that an NFHS or NCAA interp. would be followed.
Also, I am aware that the line to which I referred above is beyond the diagonal. I explained this in my post above when I mentioned the diagonal is roughly 64' away.
Anyway, I did some thorough searching about this diagonal line issue, since I know I read it somewhere. Indeed, it was in an Email reply to me from Rick Roder (he was one of the classroom instructors at school the year I attended). I had Emailed Rick a question about this since it came up elsewhere. His explanation, to paraphrase him, was that if a ball should go past "a line drawn between first and third base" and somehow end up foul, it would be a fair ball because it did, in fact, pass first or third, just in a different geometrical manner, so to speak. I was the one who brought up this "diagonal" to him, asking him if he had heard of it; hence his reply back to me explaining that that was, in fact, the interpretation under OBR.
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