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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Why are you being so disrespectful to me? I don't understand your reasoning.
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It was a trick question....just testing your veracity
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1. In 1986, when I started umpiring baseball (yes, the year Jim worked his 3rd World Series)
2. It was an instructed interpretation that all members learned together in bi-weekly classes which were (and still are) manditory.
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The rule didn't include the discernable stop which is what we are talking about here until 1988 and the interpretation regarding hands stopping before leg moving was presented at that time. Jim was consulted by the MLB rules committee for the rule interp.