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Cargando... The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastimepor Paul Dickson
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From beanballs to basebrawls, the most important rules governing the game of baseball have never been officially written down--until now. They have no sanction from the Commissioner, appear nowhere in any official publication, and are generally not posted on any clubhouse wall. They represent a set of time-honored customs, rituals, and good manners that show a respect for the game, one's teammates, and one's opponents. Sometimes they contradict the official rulebook. The fans generally only hear about them when one is bent or broken, and it becomes news for a few days. Now, for the first time ever, Paul Dickson has put these unwritten rules down on paper, covering every situation, whether on the field or in the clubhouse, press box, or stands. Along with entertaining baseball axioms, quotations, and rules of thumb, this essential volume contains the collected wisdom of dozens of players, managers, and reporters on the secret rules that you break at your own risk, such as: 1.7.1. In a Fight, Everyone Must Leave the Bench and the Bullpen Has to Join In 1.13.3. In a Blowout Game, Never Swing as Hard as You Can at a 3-0 Pitch 5.1.0. In Areas That Have Two Baseball Teams, Any Given Fan Can Only Really Root For One of Them No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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baseball0288The no crying rule is one of many standards players and fans usually agree upon but aren't part of the official rule book. There are a lot of them. Don't mention a no-hitter while it's in progress. Pitchers walk off the field, but other fielders run.
Paul Dickson compiled many of them in a book new this spring called The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime. Skip the subtitle; the title's sufficient. It's also pleasantly self-contradictory. Dickson writes all the rules we mostly know, and organizes them into tidy rule-book order. "No crying" is rule 1.9.0.
I'm a baseball fan and usually pick up at least one baseball book each season. This was a simple browsing book, filled with anecdotes and short asides. You can keep it near your TV remote, read a page between innings, and set it down again until there's a pitcher change. Effortless reading.
Some of the "rules" make you wonder about group psychology. Take brawls, for instance. Dickson declares that everyone on a team must participate in a team brawl, and mentions the cases of a player sitting in the press box and an ejected manager sent to the club house. Both men made the effort to get onto the field. They just had to be there. And a batter can complain to the umpire as long as he doesn't look at the umpire while he's doing it. That's disrespectful and might be cause for ejection. Is it in the official rule book? No. But it's in this one. It's the same with the custom of fans throwing an opponent's home run ball back onto the field, bean-ball etiquette, and why some official rules get ignored. (Think: pine tar.)
Two thirds of The Unwritten Rules is laid out like a rule book. The last third is an alphabetical collection of quotes and axioms. That portion was more tedious reading for me, but taken in smaller bites -- when I want to mute the inane words of the color commentator, for instance -- they might be just as fun.
And there is fun in baseball. Just no crying.
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