It was also only in 1980 or 1981 that the crash rule was instituted in ASA softball. These safety rules haven't been there forever.
Incidentally, I am certainly not recommending a return to the old days for school ball. High school teams are no longer composed of boys who had played sandlot ball all summer from age 6.
Trenton (NJ) High School used to be a baseball power. One of the guys I umpire with, who attended that school in the early 1960s, told me that when he showed up for baseball tryouts, he was competing with 135 other boys. That meant that some darned good players were cut. Today, they have trouble getting enough to field a team. You can't apply pro rules in that situation.
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