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When I'm teaching younger players about the strike zone, I will ask them to describe where they think the strike zone is. Invariably, I get a lot of quotations (or attempted quotations) from the rule book.
I then tell them, "The strike zone is where the umpire is calling strikes today." I try to get them to understand that every umpire has his own application of where the strike zone is and it's very benificial to spend the first inning determining exactly where the umpire is calling strikes today.
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