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I think we determined in a thread last October that "not higher than the batter's head" was superfluous and confusing in ASA.
Case book play 1-58 is no help, because though it supposedly deals with a foul tip, it uses a fair ball as its basis! The play does say that "because the catcher went to the ball, this should be ruled a legal catch," so we derived at least some wisdom from that.
In short, the consensus was that a foul ball could fail to rise over the batter's head and still be caught for an out (not a tip). For example, a ball that was softly blooped off the bat such that the catcher had to dive to the right for it would be a catch, not a foul tip.
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