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Originally posted by Jim Porter
...Finally, past umpire schools have been known to have their students scratch 7.07 out of the book. Some OBR leagues with old-timers for UIC's also require their umpires to scratch it out of the book. That includes Rhode Island's Board of Umpires. Of course, as long as your league/association/entity hasn't omitted 7.07 from the book, call it you must.
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HA! Thanks to that prompting I have finally remembered where I had seen this instruction before.
I have a copy of the student notes from the February 1982 Kinnamon Umpire School in St Petersburg, Florida. In their rules session that covered OBR 7.07, students were specifically advised that non-stealing and non-forced runners do NOT advance. (
p35 for those lucky enough to still have the xeroxed copy I supplied to several posters here some time ago)
Sure that advice may have been superceded by J/R's later interpretation. Or perhaps J/R only reflects that subsequent umpire's maybe didn't remember exactly why you should use the 6.08c/7.04d combination in preference to 7.07! Certainly John McSherry and Joe Brinkman knew! As instructors they both would have been present when Bill Kinnamon conducted that rules session. Was Rick Roder even born then? *BIG grin*
Cheers