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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
...If basketball teams in the US & Canada played internationally a lot, I'm sure they'd go by one rule set.
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Not a chance. The NBA is a business and would only adopt international rules if there was more money in it for them. Come to think of it, NCAA Div I basketball is the same.
Back to softball, the fundamental reason for so many rule sets is the same: money. Fed and ASA (at least for awhile) seemed to be attempting to consolidate rules where they could both agree. I don't know if that effort is still on-going. But, all of the alphabet organizations are basically about making money from team registrations, running tournaments, etc.
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 09:00pm
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