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Old Wed May 06, 2015, 10:25am
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The most dramatic "try" to change their mind I can recall. About 165 years ago. Home Coach, who is leading, tells one of my umpires #10 for #4 as they are switching sides for them to bat.
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Not so much off topic. The shorthanded rule hasn't existed for 165 years; the prior rule (maybe 12-15 years ago is my guess without actual reasearch) made anything less than what you started with (except the legal 10 to 9 in merging DP and DEFO, now FLEX) a forfeit.

That is still the case in NCAA.
165 years? Is this some sort of a meme that I'm missing out on?

(I even checked Wikipedia to see what year softball was invented...[1887].)
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