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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
Gotta disagree with not calling it correctly at any level. Our local kids rec league is over 30 years old and we've always had the policy of making the calls on "unusual" plays according to the rules then explaining it to the kids - even the 3rd graders. Our theory is that's the best way for them to learn.
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Mark - for the most part I don't disagree; that's why I said "perhaps". Around here, summer league games are probably a little more relaxed than even your rec league games, so that's why I used that qualifier. In some cases, we're even lucky for all of the players on one team to have the same color jerseys, much less legal numbers, so the rules that are enforced are limited to actual game rules rather than than administrative. If the league specifies follow all the rules, then by all means, that's what we should do.