“We got rules here an’ in order to learn ‘em, you gotta keep your ears open and your mouths shut.” –Cool Hand Luke
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball are anything but. They are as inviolable and permanent as the ink and paper they were written on. Ah, if only we could find them.
The only thing we know for sure is that the manuscript—rarer than any Shakespeare First Folio—is in the hands of folks who are dedicated with the task of protecting it from the hoi polloi at all cost. If it were made into a movie, we’d get Dan Brown to write the screenplay and Tom Hanks on the case, chasing down the clues, searching every baseball cathedral from Fenway to Forbes Field. He’d, of course, become a marked…
