interesting rules

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Posted By: leon

RB's thread of questions got me to looking at some rules......here is a very interesting one from the dawn of baseball:

""Runners may be out by 'plugging' them with the ball meaning the ball is thrown at the runners to put them out." - The Rules of the Massachusetts Game (Town Ball) from Dedham, May 13, 1858"


If anyone else wants to share a neat rule, present or past, go for it.....I would have loved to be able to throw at the runners when I was playing. And allowing guys to pinch hit for me, or at least pinch run , would have been ok too.....