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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
While these leagues don't use FPSR, they do feature sliding rules, which prohibit malicious contact in some way. They usually phrase it "slide or avoid collision." In the last 20 years or so, I haven't run into a youth league (under 18) that just lets the runner crash the fielder with immunity.
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I agree, most local leagues have some form of malicious contact rule that they added on top of the Charter/Franchise (ie Babe Ruth Baseball) rules. If you take a team off to a District tournament all the local rules are bye-bye and you play by Charter/Franchise rules. Babe Ruth Baseball didn't even have a malicious contact rule until the early 90's and I hope I had something to do with that because I sent two very graphic videos of crashes at the plate, with 10 and 11 year olds. Even now the malicious contact rule specifically mentions the plate, but not any other bases.
But very few have written a FPSR into their local league rules, in fact none I have been involved with. The only ones that have it are ones that play FED.