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Old Tue May 01, 2007, 09:58am
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Originally Posted by Chess Ref
I had this exact sitch in a Jv tourney. Old BB guy is the coach. For what little talent he has he does a real good job. I called OBS. When he asked how the runner was OBS the best I could come up with is catcher impeded the progress of the runner. I wasn't real happy with my answer but I lived with it and I still am not real happy with my answer.

So people thread away so I can be a happy blue.

Also in our area this seems to becoming more of the norm, catcher setting up the line .
The standard for OBS in BB is harder to meet than in softball. If you saw OBS, you had OBS. Good call blue.
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