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Old Fri Jun 06, 2008, 05:45am
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Originally Posted by lawump
I've never heard of "weak interference"...but that's because I was taught the rules using the J/R Manual (the textbook for the B/F umpire school). J/R calls it "backswing interference" or "return toss interference".

The result is the same, though, as what you describe as "weak interference".
I prefer the term 'backswing interference': the interference isn't weak, the penalty is.
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