foul tip - rule question

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by LMan

I still dont see a response to Pete's point, that being that you cannot just 'ignore' J/R, Evans, customs and usage, etc if you aim to be a quality umpire.

The statement 'if it aint in the rulebook I dont recognize it' is LLDan-esque in the extreme, and no real umpire truly believes that. Calling only by the rulebook is what the kiddies do.

I don't know about anybody else, but I didn't respond to Pete's post because I agreed with him completely. You are right, you can't just use the book, because the book's full of errors.

In OBR rule discussions, my association would seek out the current pro interpretation to a given rule, and that is how we would call it, regardless of what the book said. For FED rules we would abide by whatever correspondence came from the state interpreter, as well as the case book.

Nowdays, with all the different resources available, there is no reason not to take advantage of them.