[greymule]

To me, insisting on book rule double over ground rule double is like insisting that the plural of RBI must be RBI and not RBIs, or insisting that it's incorrect to say "the winning run is on 3B" when it's actually the potential winning run.

My own HI: book rule double is fine, but ground rule double is the universal term that everybody understands. It's as if the rule book long ago established one ground rule that applies on every field.

I will admit, though, that some commonly used terms are misleading and should be avoided, dropped rather than uncaught third strike being one of them.

We know to differentiate between caught and gloved, but we understand that gloved also covers a play in which a fielder receives and secures a throw with his bare hand.

Every day we read or hear terms that are not literally correct but are simply accepted. Just this morning, I read about how "ballistics tests" proved that the gun found in the suspect's car was the same gun used to kill somebody.* Everybody knows what that means, and nobody considers the fact that no actual ballistics tests were done at all.

*Though I have moved to Alabama, I still monitor the "crime feed" from the Soprano State.