Home Run or not ?

Not a home run. Ball remains in play.

If the ball hit the top rail of the fence and continued beyond it would have been a home run.

It would be interesting to know what was said in the umpires' consultation.

It would have beem interesting to know. Thanks for your response.

its only a home run if it hits something outside of the fence like a lightpole or a scoreboard or a tree. The fence is in play, so no homerun. If it hits the fence and goes over, homerun, and if it hits the foul pole, homerun also.

Thanks Adam. It clearly hit the top of the fence and bounced back in. There is no obstruction behind the fence for it to have hit.
Under our league rules we could have filed a protest to the game and if the protest was upheld (which I don't see how it would not have been) the game would have had to have been replayed from the 1st inning which is when the improper call was made. We choose not to do this as this was a Championship game and the trophies were handed out at the end to the team.
It wouldn't be too great a feeling to win the next game and tell some 10YOA boy he has to give his trophy back because the umpires don't know the rules. We will just chalk this up to a good education process for the boys that baseball...like life..isn't always fair.

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We will just chalk this up to a good education process for the boys that baseball...like life..isn't always fair.

Have you figured out yet how to teach that to the parents?

I would be rich if I could figure that out....

normally its not a HR, but maybe the ground rules included top of fence painted line, ect. The fact that there was an ump consultation tells me that something like that might have been a factor, otherwise, what COULD they be talking about?

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Have you figured out yet how to teach that to the parents?

When you do, please do NOT patent it as ALL of us umps NEED to be able to use it [g,d,rlh]