[greymule]

A few years ago, some posters on this board insisted that the Fed rule applied in OBR as well. One poster claimed some sort of inside knowledge that the Fed rule had been written simply to put in black and white what had been widely accepted throughout baseball for many years. As I remember, he said that he had supporting communication from Jaksa or Roder that OBR's wording of "first falls on fair territory on or beyond first base or third base" was interpreted to mean past the 1B-3B imaginary line.

So either those posters aren't frequenting this board any longer, or they realized at some point since then that they had gotten it wrong.

In baseball, I've never seen a pop fall untouched behind the 1B-3B line and then bounce foul between home and 1B or home and 3B. It would be most likely to happen on a ball that fell close to 1B or 3B. I've seen it a few times on the smaller, dirt infields of softball, though. In softball, such a ball is foul, even in Fed.