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Garth,
As always a well thought out response:
I ask you the following:
Do you agree that Evans, Roder and Childress are "authoritative opinons"?
Do any of the three carry more weight with you than the others?
While I don't remember Jon Bible commenting on rules issues I do respect him greatly, dose that mean he knows more about OBR than Warren Willson?
I also recognize Peter O. as an important "source" . . . I do not list him as an "informed source" as to rulings, so does Peter know more about rules than Jim Porter?
Are Jim Booth and Pete Booth the same person? Or is it Jim Booth and Jim Mills that are the same person? Just kidding guys!
So if you have two sources that disagree on a certain play (Example that I pick out of thin air - one source says that after a pitched ball bounces and is foul tipped that it can be legally caught just as any other foul tip and the other camp says that once the ball bounces it is no longer in flight and cannot be caught and is therefore always a foul ball) how do we find the "correct" answer?
And finally:
"Why is the history of a rule important to the most current interpretation?"
Respectfully,
(The Original & Ever Slimming)
Tee
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