ESPN MLB Rules Quiz from 2013

[hbk314]

http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/4979/do-know-mlb-rules

 

I'm sure this was posted back at the time as well, but I thought it might be interesting to repost.

[hbk314]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/9389802/how-well-do-know-baseball-rules-take-our-quiz

And there's the article talking about how well, or how poorly, certain people who took it did. Including Aaron Boone's 1/10.

[LRZ]

Rich Marazzi. About 35 years ago, when I began umpiring, I had a book by Marazzi that was the clearest exposition of OBR rules I've ever come across.

[Lindsay]

Just in case anyone's interested in the rule cites (2013-era), http://www.closecallsports.com/2013/06/espn-baseball-quiz-media-scores-low.html.

[beerguy55]

Eight - I'll take it.

[conbo61]

18 hours ago, LRZ said:

Rich Marazzi. About 35 years ago, when I began umpiring, I had a book by Marazzi that was the clearest exposition of OBR rules I've ever come across.

"THE RULES AND LORE OF BASEBALL"?

[LRZ]

Yes, that is the book. It was so helpful back then, long before all these umpiring/mechanics manuals existed or were available to the amateur world. I wonder how out of date it is now. I also had an amateurishly-printed mechanics manual,  maybe 10-12 pages long.

[Rich Ives]

10/10

Although 1 is actually false. Runner is not out for interfering with the fielder - he is out for interfering with the ball.

[hbk314]

My favorite thing about this, and Gil noted this in his article as well, is that these are all two-choice questions. You'd think that in the long run with pure guessing, the average would be roughly 50%.

Average Score: 38%

Obviously this speaks to the rules knowledge of those taking the quiz, but does it also suggest that some of the rules in the quiz may be counter-intuitive to people with little or no rules knowledge coming in?

[smckin]

6 but I applied FED rules to one at least ugh!!!

[hbk314]

I got 10/10 also, but I'll freely admit that I wasn't completely sure on which infraction provided the manager with a choice: balk or CI. Made the correctly slightly educated guesses though.

[Mudisfun]

Based on my score of 10/10 I am waiting by the phone for that call up job!