brief version of ASA rules

[steveshane67]

does anyone know of any place to find a concise version of SP ASA rules?

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by steveshane67

does anyone know of any place to find a concise version of SP ASA rules?

Sure, I've got 'em...

"Hit the damn ball."

[Skahtboi]

In the rule book.

[wadeintothem]

Cliff's Notes?

[greymule]

Maybe somebody publishes them in the "Classics on CD" series, with some famous actor doing the reading. You could listen while you sleep.

What is odd about the term Sierra Nevada Mountains?

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by greymule

What is odd about the term Sierra Nevada Mountains?

There are so many ways to interpret that, I'm not sure what you mean exactly...

I use that location so that people know I'm not some flatlander ca city boy.

[SC Ump]

Originally Posted by greymule

What is odd about the term Sierra Nevada Mountains?

Okay, I'll bite, with apologizes that we are hijacking the thread. Could it be...

Sierra is "mountain range" in Italian and nevada is "snowy" in Spanish, so I guess we have Snowy Mountain Range Mountains.

Building on that, many will 'pluralize' it in the American way, calling them the Sierra Nevadas, which gives us Mountain Range Snowies.

[SC Ump]

Originally Posted by steveshane67

does anyone know of any place to find a concise version of SP ASA rules?

I do not believe there is any abbreviated version of the rule books for any organization. You can probably purchase an ASA Rule Book from Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA).

[steveshane67]

Originally Posted by SC Ump

I do not believe there is any abbreviated version of the rule books for any organization. You can probably purchase an ASA Rule Book from Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA).

i already have a copy of the full rule book. and why ASA feels the need to charge ~$20 for its rules is beyond me, i found a pdf online.

what i was asking for is if anyone knew of any league websites that may have went through the rule book and wrote a cliffs notes version of just the SP appropriate rules.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by steveshane67

....and why ASA feels the need to charge ~$20 for its rules is beyond me...

Mike R...you want to take this?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Andy

Mike R...you want to take this?

Yeah, Momma Gump was right.

When someone registers a team or as an umpire a rule book is included for less than $20 (to ASA).

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by steveshane67

i already have a copy of the full rule book. and why ASA feels the need to charge ~$20 for its rules is beyond me, i found a pdf online.

what i was asking for is if anyone knew of any league websites that may have went through the rule book and wrote a cliffs notes version of just the SP appropriate rules.

Is the PDF part of ASA's website? If not, then how can you believe the veracity of it? In a nutshell, you can't. That is why we all use the rule book. There is no short cut to understanding the game. Quit trying to find one.

[Snocatzdad]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

Is the PDF part of ASA's website? If not, then how can you believe the veracity of it? In a nutshell, you can't. That is why we all use the rule book. There is no short cut to understanding the game. Quit trying to find one.

USSSA has some faults, but having their rule book online is a nice feature. I like having a hardcopy, but being able to search for key words in an online rule book is pretty nice. Plus you can cut and paste relevant rules when answering questions.

[greymule]

Boondocks has come to mean the sticks or, in the case of the song, an inferior neighborhood, but it actually means mountains in Tagalog. (American servicemen in WW II brought the term home from the Philippines.) So down in the mountains doesn't quite add up.

[steveshane67]

Originally Posted by Skahtboi

Is the PDF part of ASA's website? If not, then how can you believe the veracity of it? In a nutshell, you can't. That is why we all use the rule book. There is no short cut to understanding the game. Quit trying to find one.

first off, the pdfs out there are copys of the physical rule book, there are these things called scanners nowadays.

secondly, i wasnt trying to find a short cut to understand the game, as an umpire. however, most PLAYERS dont read rule books, and i was trying to find a concise version of the rules for PLAYERS.

quit trying to be a jack ***