Interference Question

[w_sohl]

You are a coach I am assuming from reading the posts. You would probably be surprised at the number of officials, at least at the varsity level and up, that go home and look things up after every game. We may be pretty darn sure we got it right, which I'm sure that official did, but he thought about it and looked it up.

I know if something sneaks up on me I look it up. My first year of umpireing I was working a sophomore game. I was scared to death that entire year because I had been doing basketball for seven years and you always had a partner around to help you out, baseball we aren't so luck at the lower levels. Never even had anyone look at me unfortunately. Anyway, coach asked for a courtsey runner and he put one in, the kid however had already ran for another player in the same inning. There were no complaints, but after the game the other coach asked if it was legal, I honestly told him that I didn't know for sure and that I would look it up. It was a double header and the coach and I were in the dugout looking at rule books trying to find it somewhere where is said one way or the other. We never found anything that day, but I continued to look. Hope this made sense, I feel like I was just rambling on.