Does the "neighborhood play" have any traditional use in softball? This is a practical unwritten adjustment to the rules that high school age and up baseball uses to allow fielders to get the out while staying out of the way of the runners. I don't recall it ever being discussed on a softball rules board, so my assumption is that it is not an accepted practice in softball. Maybe metal cleats has something to do with it.
What about it?
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Tom
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