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Old Mon Oct 08, 2012, 10:16am
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
But it's not, as you'll find if you look up the definition of "infield."

The rules were written by gentlemen for gentlemen, not by lawyers for lawyers, and sometimes that gets us into trouble.
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Originally Posted by Rich Ives View Post
The rule book also defines the infield as just the 90 foot square, so that doesn't really work either...
If the 2nd baseman is "playing in shallow right field", he's not an infielder for the purposes of this rule in my opinion. Your opinions may vary.