baserunning question

[teebob21]

Originally Posted by PaREF

I don't know the exact interpretation but I think that he was ruled to have been past second base because he had one foot on the third base side of second while the other foot was not touching the ground, so he was ruled to have passed second base but did not re-touch the base on the way back to first.

The OBR interpretation is that if you cut the base on a 45 degree angle, the runner must have two feet past to be "past", or else he is still "prior" to the base and does not need to retouch on returning.

I have no idea what the corresponding interps are for any of the softball alphabets.