Thread: Illegal Pitch
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Old Tue Jun 04, 2013, 10:10am
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Originally Posted by jmkupka View Post
No.
Just had a partner (PONY tournament) insist that she be in the "catching position", in a crouch, prior to the pitch.
Jes' makin' sure I wasn't misreading a simple rule
And it is folk lore like that which results in people thinking PONY is by-and-large inferior ball using inferior umpires.

Just me, but I would 1) tell that partner he is a f*cking indiot, and 2) look in every available rule book to assure myself I didn't miss something, before I asked something like that on a national board, making me look like him.
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