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Wed Aug 10, 2011, 11:45am

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Originally Posted by ontheway

why cant we just stay "inside the diamond" like baseball positioning?

90 feet square is 2.25 times as large as a 60 foot square. A) There's no room to start there, B) too close to the batter to react, and C) in softball runners can't leave early - how are you going to see all the runners from inside?

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