I have fond memories of playing summer softball as a pre-teenager at Ramapo Country Day Camp in New Jersey. Looking back, I realize that when my brother hit ground balls so I could practice breaking up the double play on poor unassuming middle infielder Ivan Kolodny, I was in extreme violation of today’s slide rule. And that when I moved into foul territory as a first baseman because a kid kept hooking foul balls past first, I was doing something that wouldn’t be allowed in today’s game.
