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Old Wed Jun 13, 2007, 10:58am
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I always thought the purpose of those curved backstops was to direct the foul pop ups back down on the umpire's head!

(Actually, I saw an umpire who would regularly tip his mask up to cover the top of his head for foul pop ups to the backstop with that "clamshell" style.)
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