illegal Slide?

[Lilblue612]

In the Fed case book 2.32.1 Situation A, an act similar to what you described occurs. Even a hard, legal slide which takes out F4 in this situation is warranted unless R1 does something to make it illegal. If the runner comes in high with his spikes, with legs slashing or kicking, or with an intent to injure the fielder, I don't see anything wrong with the slide. I don't see how the "take-out" slide you originally described violated 2.32.2D unless the runner went into F4 not just with a hard slide, but with his legs actually kicking back and forth. As bluezebra said, the "take-out" slide is a classical move in baseball. By no way does simply sliding into F4 qualify the slide as illegal, or even as a slash.