re: Is there a such thing as a ground rule in the park Hr??

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I remember playing in a 12 year old league at a field with no fence (I'm old). One of my teammates hit a ball so hard it hit the elementary school like 300 feet away on one bounce. He crossed home plate before they even got the ball back to the infield. The umpires called it a home run and the other team's coach came out of the dugout screaming that it should have been a ground rule double because it hit the school. Apparently that had never happened before and the umpires didn't know what to do about it so they said it was a ground rule double.

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I played in a softball league once with a handful of Michigan football players. No fences, and Keith Bostic hit a ball so hard we didn't even try to track it. It cleared the parking lot on one bounce, and it's probably still bouncing and rolling through Siberia or something. Nobody tried to tell him it was a ground rule anything.

Oh yeah, OP? You should definitely scream at the umps, maybe punch one of them out, scream at the other coach, and sue everybody in sight. It's the American way of kids' sports now, and you don't want to fall behind.