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Sun Sep 09, 2007, 04:41pm

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Originally Posted by canadaump6

By the way, you claim that the top of the wall is beyond the front plane of the fence. How would you explain the few instances when a ball bounces off the top of the fence back into play, and is not called a homerun by an MLB umpire?

I think the physics of it would suggest that if the ball did hit the top of the wall it wouldn't bounce back into play. That tells me the instances you're thinking about have the ball hitting the front corner of the top of the wall rather than the top itself.

Tim.

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