Thread: Ground Rules ?
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Old Wed May 21, 2008, 10:08am
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Originally Posted by Chess Ref
ASA Sp. The games are in a park that have trees that overhang onto the field. The branches make it to fair territory. The branches are about 250 feet from home plate so they can come into play, haven't so far but very easily could. Any suggestions, short of trimming them myself, about how to handle this ?

My thinking is ball hits the tree I have a dead ball and then come up with either an out or the appropriate bases ?
Simplest manner in which to deal with this issue is to play the tree as if it were a wall.
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