Kids Trivia

[mbrown2097]

Hey guys,

Looking for rules trivia to share with a young team. 12u.  Hopefully you all can share some ideas.

 

i.e. Fair or Foul -->  Batted ball rolls and stops outside of foul line (not touching) but is close enough that it is still "over" the line.  Is this fair or foul.

[Mad Mike]

Paste the link below into your browser. This site has 40 top baseball rule myths. It is pretty entertaining!

 

http://stevetheump.com/rules_myths.htm

[umpstu]

Paste the link below into your browser. This site has 40 top baseball rule myths. It is pretty entertaining!

 

http://stevetheump.com/rules_myths.htm

Had the same thought.

[Rich Ives]

 

Paste the link below into your browser. This site has 40 top baseball rule myths. It is pretty entertaining!

 

http://stevetheump.com/rules_myths.htm

Had the same thought.

 

 

His note on the overrun of first is inappropriate. The older MLBUM 5.13 says you can overrun first on a BB as 7.08(c ) makes no exception.

[Senor Azul]

I recommend a book titled "The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated" by David Nemec. It is the best book I have seen that deals with the history of the rules. It is available in all the usual places such as Amazon and it is in most libraries. There are all kinds of interesting tidbits about the rules. For example: it wasn't until 1954 that fielders were required by rule to remove their gloves from the field. Or, until 1931 a batted ball that bounced over the outfield fence was considered a home run--not a so-called ground rule double (and, no, Babe Ruth did not have any bounce homers). There are many more like that.

 

Also, you could check out the rule change timeline on baseball-almanac.com. And there is a great website describing baseball rules in the 1800s at 19cbaseball.com.