Jewelry

[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by treydawgmt

Most of the travel ball I do uses HS rules, and so must have no jewelry. There have been multiple occasions where I have required one person to remove jewelry, and then within a few seconds, the 1/2 the rest of the team removes some too!

Just curious - what org is the umbrella for your travel ball?

The only one I've run across that uses FED is AAU.

[Dave Reed]

Rich,
The tournaments run by USA Baseball, Perfect Game, CABA, and other smaller entities like the Battle in the South all use NFHS as the basis for their rules.

USSSA and Nations baseball use OBR based rules with some of the NFHS safety rules.

Roughly speaking, at about age 14 (sometimes less) travel ball organizations which have players that will end up playing college ball pretty much stop playing in USSSA or Nations and play instead tournaments that use NFHS rules.

[treydawgmt]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

Just curious - what org is the umbrella for your travel ball?

The only one I've run across that uses FED is AAU.

I do a ton of Gameday USA tourney's, they all use FED rules. I do a bunch of other travel ball, not even sure who it is (nor do I really care), but I'm betting 70-80% of the non-men's leagues I do are FED here in the Chicago Suburbs.

(And I'm not a big fan of the men's leagues most of the time, just the larger paychecks!)

[RPatrino]

Are they 100% FED rules or do they use a variation of the FED rules?

For summer ball around here they like to pick and choose between rule sets. Let's use FED for FPSR, DH and we will use OBR for everything else, and maybe throw in a few 'house' rules just to keep things interesting.

[treydawgmt]

Okay, okay. So they're FED rules, with free subs usually, maybe or maybe not to infield fly, a few other things here and there. Leave it up to each league to make things more complicated!

But absolutely FED based.

[Dave Reed]

For the tournaments I was referring to, the rules will say "NFHS with the following exceptions:"

The exceptions usually include more restrictive age rules, time limits in pool play, mercy rules, special procedures to accelerate the outcome of an extra inning game, protest procedures, and in many cases, a requirement for wood bats.

The sort of rules that we normally think of as the "playing rules" are straight NFHS.

[Tim C]

Actually the answer to the "what states don't use NFHS baseball rules" was always the same:

Massachusetts

and

North Dakota (as they do not play high school baseball at all).

Don't know if that has changed.

T

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I'm thinking a southern state, Mississippi if I'm not mistaken. One of those.

Originally Posted by GROUPthink

Rhode Island.

Well, I was really close on that guess.

Originally Posted by David B

Not Mississippi, we use straight FED rules for HS ball

Thanks
David

Good to know. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Tim C

Actually the answer to the "what states don't use NFHS baseball rules" was always the same:

Massachusetts

and

North Dakota (as they do not play high school baseball at all).

Don't know if that has changed.

T

So now there are three?

[Dave Reed]

Rhode Island baseball uses NFHS rules.

See also the RIIL site.

[Steven Tyler]

Try Alaska.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Dave Reed

Rhode Island baseball uses NFHS rules.

See also the RIIL site.

When I lived back east, they did not. I just found a link that says that RI transitioned from AL rules to NFHS rules in 2009. So there's only 1 state then that plays HS baseball that doesn't use NFHS rules now, I think.

And Tee, ND *does* play HS baseball. It's Montana that does not (they play Legion).