Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Baseball unwritten rules

  • Baseball has been America's national pastime for more than 200 years. Originating in the 1800s by American Army officer Abner Doubleday, the sport gained popularity and grew to the multi-billion dollar organization it is today.
  • (State Hornet)
  • We all know the main rules of baseball, as well as any other sport that we follow. Even the more advanced rules are generally common knowledge, at least to those that follow the game.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Over at Deadspin, Erick Malinowski reveals baseball's unwritten rules. Which, strangely enough, were written down in a 1986 issue of "Baseball Digest."  I got "Baseball Digest" back then and I think they're all still in my basement.
  • (NBC Sports)
  • As if absorbing a new language werent hard enough, the Cuban defector also has to learn baseballs unwritten rules at the major league level.
  • (USA Today)
  • I didnt really explain why, though. For that, heres Jason Turbow (via SI.
  • (Baseball Nation)
  • This is largely why there is so much monotony and downtime in baseball, and why so much emphasis has been placed on peripheral nonsense known as the unwritten rules.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • They are gentlemen and scholars and … baseball players. Okay, so maybe that isn't exactly how baseball's unwritten rules were decided upon. Odds are they were decided by a handshake between captains after a fistfight.
  • (Notre Dame & Saint Mary Observer)
  • He was just doing what baseball fans across the world did the night of The man is still learning English as well as the game's unwritten rules.
  • (Sporting News)
  • That didnt please Seattle pitcher Jason Vargas at all — especially since the As were trailing 5-0 at the time — and Cespedes later realized he may have made a mistake by violating the unwritten rule of watching the ball too long.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • As if absorbing a new language werent hard enough, the Cuban defector also has to learn baseballs unwritten rules at the major league level.
  • (USA Today)

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