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From: berry@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: can one player run past another? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 20:06:11 EDT
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fortune!berry    Jun 30 16:10:00 1983

	RE: Players passing one another

	One runner cannot pass a leading runner.  Well, he can but
he can't touch the next base before a leading runner.  If it happens
the defending team can make an appeal to have the passing runner
called out.  This is an appeal play, not an automatic out.

	Along similar lines a base is mine until I touch the next
base.  In other words, if two runners are both standing on second
the lead runner is legally on the base and the following runner
is liable to be put out by being touched with the ball.  This is true
even if the lead runner has left second to go to third and for some
reason turned around and come back to second.


	David
	harpo!fortune!berry