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Baseball rules corner: instant replay for disputed home run calls would be beneficial.(Column)
FOUR YEARS AGO IN THIS COLUMN I endorsed the idea of using the instant replay for distance calls that involve disputed home runs that might be fair or foul and spectator interference that is called in fair territory between the foul poles.
Okay, I'll eat the latter idea only because it might be too big of a chunk for Major League Baseball to chew', but I'm not going to quit on controversial home run calls that are called fair or foul.
These calls arise periodically. They are not obscure knotty problems that occur once every 50 years. Since baseball is the only major sport where an official (umpire) is expected to make a proper call sometimes as far away ...
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