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Old Mon Jul 14, 2014, 10:41am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich View Post
It is only the practice of bad baseball umpires.
That's what I suspected.

I still believe that at some point in the past, it was a common thing, and it's being kept alive by umpires who learned from those old-timers who did it.
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