When I played baseball, fake tags were legal (and still are in OBR). They were fully accepted as fair play if the defense used them as legitimate strategy. The only "no-no" was an unnecessary fake tag, such as when a runner was stealing 2B and the pitch was fouled off.
I never saw an injury from a fake tag, probably because runners knew what was going on.
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