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Le Grande Orange · 02-23-2007, 02:34 PM

As someone interested in not just the current-day rules but in the rules as they were in earlier years, one of the things I want to do is write a "MLB Rules through the Years" type of document detailing the main rules and how they've changed over the years to serve as a sort of guide.

Not an easy task, obviously.

But thanks to some folks at SABR, I've got the 1970, 1976, and 1990 CBAs, which is great. Then I've been rooting around various places digging up as many of the little nuggets of rule info I can. I recently found out what the August 15th deadline about being "draft-excluded" means (and it wasn't what I thought it meant). The hard part is finding out the particulars of the older rules and when some of the rules changed.

02-23-2007, 02:34 PM	#7
Le Grande Orange Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Up There Posts: 15,642	As someone interested in not just the current-day rules but in the rules as they were in earlier years, one of the things I want to do is write a "MLB Rules through the Years" type of document detailing the main rules and how they've changed over the years to serve as a sort of guide. Not an easy task, obviously. But thanks to some folks at SABR, I've got the 1970, 1976, and 1990 CBAs, which is great. Then I've been rooting around various places digging up as many of the little nuggets of rule info I can. I recently found out what the August 15th deadline about being "draft-excluded" means (and it wasn't what I thought it meant). The hard part is finding out the particulars of the older rules and when some of the rules changed. Last edited by Le Grande Orange; 02-23-2007 at 02:36 PM.