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Old Wed Feb 12, 2014, 07:56pm
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Originally Posted by Little Jimmy View Post
Local meeting discussion. Bats are checked before game. All are fine. Somewhere in the game, a batter approaches the plate with a choke up device on the bat. Is it an altered bat? Some at our local meeting said it was, but the altered bat definition speaks of a structural change. The structure of the bat wasn't changed was it? Do we simply say to the batter that it can't be used? By the way, Fed website shows 1-5-2A with choke up device mentioned in last sentence. Paper rulebook doesn't mention the word choke up device in 1-5-2A.
I would not say altered, but I don't know much about the physical characteristics of the devices. Not within the sense of the altered rule, I would say.
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