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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
JM,
I got the same question many years ago from some new umpires. At the next clinic, I began teaching that the foul poles and the foul lines are really the fair poles and the fair lines. The students seem a bit confused at first but they get the idea after a while. I have never gotten that question since from anyone that has been through our training!
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No different than when playing baseball as kids when a batted ball hit the plate and rolled fair. Everybody would be jumping up and down "it hit the plate, it's a foul ball".