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Illustrated with more than fifty black-and-white photographs, a study of the rules of baseball traces the development of baseball rules, examining how and why the rules have changed over the years, as well as key moments in baseball history. Simultaneous.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (April 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558212809
ISBN-13: 978-1558212800
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,352,030 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book I've Read on This Subject, December 25, 1999

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Nice job of interweaving baseball's rules with anecdotes giving you the reasons they were first implemented or else later modified. I found it a surprise that this book was first written in 1994 and then updated for 1999 with almost no effort at all. Because there have been no important changes at all in the rules for a number of years now! Think about that. Monumental player strikes, massive umpiring problems, records toppling almost every day--but the basic game has remained changeless. This book, as a result, may hold up for a long while as the best I've seen on the rules and their history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprise, surprise, September 2, 1999

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Terrible title, but the book more than survives it. The Rules of Baseball a fun read? Somehow Nemec makes it happen. Just wish it had been longer. You get the feeling that for every anecdote he used he had another 10 or 12 he could have given us that were just about as entertaining.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting reading for baseball fanatics., August 20, 1997

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Interesting and often humorous. But if you're an umpire wishing to know the origin of all the rules - this book is not for you. The most interesting aspect of the book is not so much concerning the evolution of the individual rules, rather, the evolution of the game of baseball, in general

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
Are you an umpire or player with an interest in the rules and how they came to be ?

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Published 1 month ago by Jeff Buxton

4.0 out of 5 stars Rules of Baseball
Good detail on the history of baseball and the rule orgins of the main rules of professional baseball. I like history, so this works great for the history buff.

Published 7 months ago by Shelby Flowers

5.0 out of 5 stars Decent Coverage
This is a decent reference, if only for the rules at the back. Those rules are organized throughout the book with neat historical commentary on many of them, either with actual... Read more

Published on May 15, 2003 by Randy Given

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on the history of baseball.
This book gives the reasons why there are 39,337 words in the rules to Major League Baseball. Do you want to know why the pitchers' mound is 60' 6"? Read the book. Read more

Published on January 2, 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars It wasn't bad, but for some reason, it didn't catch me
I got this book, and expected it to be a fun read, and for awhile it was. It's got some great ancedotes on how the various rules in the baseball rule book have come... Read more

Published on May 14, 2001 by Joseph M. Siegler

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've read on the subject
Apart from the fact that the author seems to pick and choose which rule changes to explore, I have nothing but praise and admiration for this book. Read more

Published on August 7, 1999

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