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Old Wed Mar 12, 2008, 10:30am
David B David B is offline
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[QUOTE=Rich Ives]
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Originally Posted by David B

OK, how does one legaly obstruct?
Come on now, you 've been around the game long enough to know that.

We were taught to plant on the inside edge of 1st base which is legal and forces the runner to take a wide turn around first base.

We did this even with a base hit. We probably got four to five guys thrown out at second because of it during a season.

Now its not obstruction, but in reality you are obstructing the runners path, call it subliminally?

Thanks
David
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