Opinion: Major League Baseball is messing with the basic rules of the game a little too much, writes Peter Funt
From my seat behind third base I noticed something strange about the foul poles down the right- and left-field lines. They were baby blue.
This was a few years ago, on a warm evening in Scottsdale, Ariz., where baseball’s brightest young players were playing in the Arizona Fall League. The poles had been repainted, I later learned, as an experiment. Major League Baseball wanted to know whether umpires could make calls more accurately—fair or foul—if the poles were blue instead of the usual yellow.
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