What's The Correct Call ???

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Very well, then.

We've established that holding a ball, throwing it (not a try), running several steps, and catching it is travelling.

Let's say A-1 holds the ball, tosses it in the air, BATS IT, runs several steps, and catches it. Is this legal?

Nope. That's an illegal dribble that has recently been unceremoniously changed to a travel. The key to the play in the OP is the fact that the player traveled and thus ended player control.

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

That's an illegal dribble that has recently been unceremoniously changed to a travel.

Then, it's a travel. What it used to be is irrelevant.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Then, it's a travel. What it used to be is irrelevant.

No, it's not irrelevant. It's a violation because it's a dribble that fails to hit the floor between consecutive touches by the hands of the player in control.

But we're diverging from the point. The point is, without the fumble, the same rules don't apply.