| This issue of who started baseball or who
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| | higher. At some point the runner would
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| made the first rules for the game is just
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| | take off like a blue streak.Ironically,
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| so much malarkey. Just like it took
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| | the odds were good the defender would get
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| Einstein to tell us the truth of which
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| | excited and miss handle his catch and the
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| came first the "chicken or the egg". Must
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| | runner would outrun the defenders throw.
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| have been a tie because there has never
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| | The throw and the toss in the air was
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| been a declared winner.I'll tell you one
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| | nothing more than another wrinkle or
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| thing the age old nursery rhyme of
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| | version of the hit the runner with the
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| "Humpty Dumpty Sat On A Wall" then when
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| | ball.You tell me where these kind of
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| he fell all the kings men and horses
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| | rules are written down and passed along
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| could not put him back together again.
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| | from a rule book. My ball playing
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| Folks that little ditty was well before
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| | buddies, when I was growing up, never
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| "duck tape".Seriously the issue of who
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| | really knew there was a book with all the
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| and when is really a part of the chicken
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| | rules. This learning the game and playing
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| and the egg and humpty dumpty question,
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| | by rules although you might say
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| it just happened.Growing up, playing
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| | unofficial rules served us well.Like I
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| baseball by playground rules, I never saw
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| | said in my introduction most of the rules
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| a rule book and I know of no one who I
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| | we played, by or against, were made "By
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| have ever known reading one.
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| | some dude." When watching the bigger
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| Some how we managed to get a game
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| | youngsters play and waiting our turn we
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| underway, sometimes we finished the game,
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| | absorbed the rules by observation. Right
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| and then sometimes it ended in a good
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| | wrong or indifferent somehow we began to
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| argument or fight over some rules we
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| | play by the rules which counted the
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| simply made up.Would you believe we even
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| | most.Nothing could be more elementary
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| have made rules like so many foul hits
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| | than three strikes and you are out. Must
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| would equal a strike. Some of the bigger
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| | tag up on a fly ball being caught. A
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| boys were so good at hitting,and would
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| | runner must be tagged with the ball not
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| not want to give up their turn at bat,
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| | the glove only. Running out of the
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| they would foul hit pitch after pitch.
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| | baseline to avoid a tag caused more
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| Bigger boys were in control and they
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| | fights than being called a sissy.We
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| would take advantage of the smaller inept
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| | learned the rules and the bigger boys
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| players and simply toy with us and stay
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| | made sure the rules were applied their
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| at bat.This old thing about getting a
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| | way. If you think an umpire has control
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| runner out by throwing and hitting him
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| | of a game you have not seen control like
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| with the ball between bases? Where we
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| | a sixth grader who stands a head taller
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| learned that rule is beyond me? Never do
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| | than his classmates.Rules written or
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| I recall someone sitting us down and
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| | unwritten we loved to play the game so we
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| saying, "Now the way you get a runner out
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| | learned the rules and we passed them
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| is hit him with the ball."You see
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| | along both altered and unaltered. This is
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| somewhere way back there in history the
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| | part of the game we loved and still
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| hitting the runner with the ball got
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| | cherish.Batter Up---Let's Play
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| started. Here is another of those just
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| | Ball...Major Wiley B. Channell USMC
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| got started rules. Rule for use with only
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| | (retired) playing by the rules at till
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| two players playing in the front yard and
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| | trouble starts. When trouble breaks out
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| a runner is on base. The defender or
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| | we break in with the real rules of
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| player in the field would toss the ball
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| | playing baseball.
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| in the air. His throw would be higher and
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