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Mon Mar 17, 2003, 11:15pm
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What is the purpose of the 16'dia circle? We know that it is used for the purpose of the look-back rule, but I am sure the circle long pre-dated the look-back rule.
I had someone tell me tonight that the pitcher could not land with her stride foot completely outside the circle (!). Was that ever a rule in the past - for any level of FP? WMB 
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Tue Mar 18, 2003, 05:49pm
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WMB,
Just funning, but 8' is a loooong stride.  And No, I cannot say if it was ever a rule or not. glen
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Wed Mar 19, 2003, 02:28pm
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Easily
Some of them could almost touch the batter.
Don't know about the history of 16 feet. I thought it might historically have something to do with the size of the baseball mound but that is 18 feet diameter.
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Wed Mar 19, 2003, 03:30pm
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Professor of occult studies at Princeton University tells me the circle originally was not 16 feet, but 5 times pi feet (15.71 feet). Something to do with necromancy and an ancient curse. Through the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the Catholic Church, in an attempt to eradicate vestiges of paganism, set the uniform standard of 16 feet.
If you examine the ancient fields along the Cornish coast, you'll find the five-pi circles. The prof says the ancients used the exact same infield fly rule, though.
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Wed Mar 19, 2003, 06:55pm
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Very good
So the pitchers had pi feet? And they had 5 of them! Which one had to be on the rubber? Did they have to drag all four of the others... simultaneous or sequential?
Was it still called a "crow hop" or was it a Rockettes shuffle?
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Wed Mar 19, 2003, 08:40pm
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Good questions, DownTown. I'll see if the professor will let me do research for a Ph.D. thesis on the subject.
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