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Old Thu Jan 09, 2003, 06:41am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by ronald


Has anyone ever called verbal interfence? I had a 1st base coach who flirted with getting it a couple times. He would yell for the player to throw the ball to the wrong base. a couple of times the players almost did. If the player had thrown the ball, he would have gotton it. He cocked to throw but did not. Oh, I was hoping he would because I wanted to call it on him sooooo bad.
Yes, I have. However, you need to be very careful making such a call especially on a coach. You want to make sure whatever the coach is yelling, it cannot be contrued that it was direction for any runner.



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