Our home table isn't the best, as well the ball. We were the home team. I swapped the cue ball with a cyclops cue ball. We practiced with it. Left it on the table for the visiting team to practice with. They said they wouldn't play with that cue ball and would only play with the normal cue ball. I know I have seen the cue ball replaced many times. Never heard it could be refused. League rep showed me a photo of a rules basically stating no one could replace any equipment that was provided by the home room. Is this a new rule or is the interruption wrong? Heck I have heard players swapping out playing balls and cue ball.
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That's nowhere to be found in the current actual APA Team Manual, as best I can tell. Looks like a by-law to me.
My local league put in a by-law I prefer in terms of playing the game the way it's meant to be played, whereby no team can deny the use of a regulation cue ball if (1) the table's supplied cue ball is not regulation (oversize, "mud," etc), and (2) the regulation ball is readily accessible after a scratch (i.e., doesn't require additional coins to a pay table, etc).
Edit: looking at the bottom of the image, it appears to indicate (before it is cut off) that if multiple table sizes are available a 3 1/2 x 7 must be used unless....(?) - also not in the team manual. Either that's a by-laws guide, or a very, very old APA manual whose rules are no longer empowered.