Rules Test

[lawump]

SCarolina Blue is 100% correct. There are no appeal plays in South Carolina high school baseball.

I won't elaborate, but the reason has to do with some high ranking persons in the state who had some hurt feelings and refused to go along with the FED when it changed its rules to adopt an appeal rule 10 years ago, or so.

While I always had a good relationship with the assistant director in charge of baseball who just retired, the fact is that he refused to change the state high school league's stance on this rule. However, now that he is retired, as President of one of, if not, the largest high school umpires association in the state, I am lobbying hard to adopt the appeal rule for 2011.

I can state positively that every high school umpire association's "official position" is exactly the same: that the rule should be employed in SC.