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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
And a bit of advice you may already know: it's not always the "old veteran" who knows best. I had a "20-year vet" tell me that a runner leading off on the pitch is an appeal play in slow pitch.
Pick your mentors carefully. 
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Amen to that, I once had an old crusty vet tell a partner (3 man) that he had to call the infield fly when we had runners on 1st and 3rd and that a coach was immediatly ejected if the coach came out with a rulebook to ask a question. The old guys swore these things were in the rulebook.