Fair or Foul??????

[DG]

Originally posted by nickrego
Thanks for the reference to 2-5-1b.

Now I remember reading it, but it always struck me as a fly ball issue and never even thought of a ball hitting beyond that line and then going foul by traveling backwards inside that imaginary line. Yikes !

To be honest, if that happend in a game, unless you have a rule book with you to show the coaches, you would go down as the stupidest umpire of the season for calling it a fair ball (even though it is).

I said earlier that I have never seen it happen, but if I did, and called it foul I would not try to show it to him in a rule book. I would also not take kindly to being called stupid, that's personal (one of the 3P's). "Coach, you can look it up when you get home, and apologize to me next time you see me, but today you are gone..."