It may have been around as an option for baseball that long; any rule would be welcome to speed up that game. When I coached HS Softball I didn't have a team that really beat up on the clock, but still we would finish and the girls would head for the baseball diamond to see the rest of the BB game. And often would see 2 or 3 innings. (Away games, because both teams rode the same bus.)
Whatever, it was still an option for NFHS BB and SB as recently as 2000 (and listed under the catagory of "Speed Up Rules" in the baseball book!
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