Posts Tagged ‘baseball’

Baseball Is a Game with No Rules, Only Exceptions

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

And now, as Monty Python once said, for something completely different.

Have you ever tried to explain the game of (Major League) baseball to someone who knows nothing about it? I tried once, back in the 1980s, to explain it to my (English) father-in-law, and found to my dismay that baseball is a game that doesn’t have rules, only exceptions. Allow me to illustrate.

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