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Old Thu Jan 28, 2010, 10:56pm
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Originally Posted by Stevetheump View Post
Well said, Cecil. I had a coach who told me a couple years ago that the (ASA SP) "strike zone" was from "the batter's FRONT shoulder to the BACK knee." Try visualizing that. I told him it was from the "BACK shoulder to the FRONT knee." He was certain HE was right. So, after the game, I broke out the rule book, looked up its' definition and let HIM read it. He was dumbfounded.
I may be mistaken, but that may be the old U-Trip rule. I haven't called U-Trip in well over a decade, but I seem to remember doing a double-take when reading their definition of the strike zone in the book.
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