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Received a phone call from my regional UIC today. He reaffirmed that as ASA umpires when a player commits an act of unsportsmanlike conduct, the play is immediately ruled dead, that player is ruled out and ejected. Everything else should be handled the same as obstruction. The runners are returned to the base last touched at the time of the unsportsmanlike act. In the case of an active BR who is not the player guilty of USC, they are awarded 1B if they had not attained it by the time of the USC.
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The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
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