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Old Sun Mar 01, 2015, 10:25am
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by zebra2955 View Post
I have talked with one of our state interpreters and he agrees it looks like contradicting definitions. He is going to look into getting some clarification from the NFHS. I don't believe we would have any discussion of this until turf fields came into existence. I have seen some goofy stuff on the turf fields.

If you look at this imaginary line, it is approx. 70 feet or so from home plate. You could have a ball hit close to this line, or even slightly over it. spin foul. Tough call either way.
How can anyone think it is not fair?

ART. 1 . . . A fair ball is a batted ball which:
d. first falls on fair ground on or beyond first or third base; or


It did that. It's fair. Please cite a rule tahe says you can "un-fair" a batted ball once fair.
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