Baseball Playground Rules

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Baseball playground rules and learning how to be a team player, along with the art of playing ball by baseball game rules, on the school playgrounds, or playing by Street Baseball Rules, out on the city streets, during our younger days and formative years.

The development of playing the game of baseball playground rules evolved for well over more than 160 years into official little league baseball rules. It is all part of how our Society has progressed or did it progress?.

It was reported that a group of boys playing ball on the square in Cooperstown, New York way back in 1839. One hundred years later in 1939 (after 100 years) of town square and school yard playing with made up rules. Rules for playing Little League Baseball was put into place in Williamsport,Pennsylvania.

The hierarchy of how things were handled on our playgrounds was a testing ground for all kids learning about community give and take as well as this game of baseball.

Leadership roles were assumed by the better playing athletes.

Baseball playground rules was the stuff of baseball playing dreams. Going to grammar school in the country at recess time was the best life a boy or girl could hope for.

Ball players growing up enjoying the game with the teenagers and young adults you were taught and it come sort of natural the habit of saying, "Yes Maam, No Maam", and "Yes Sir" while respecting your elders and the authorities in the neighborhood.

This baseball playground rules had a lot to do with contributing to this growing up respectful attitude.

All of the nuances of who played, and when and what position were part of individual development and in some cases, prowess or toughness as well as abiding by the dictates of the older boys or girls.

This subtle underlying fact of ability, plus determined effort, dictated the means by which baseball playing future stars were made.

History played a significant role in develpment of the norms for the baseball playground rules. Early years of the game, specifically prior to the War Years of World War II, baseball equipment such as gloves, bats,and baseballs, was almost nonexistent for the general public.

This was especially true for rural America....

This brief overview sets the stage of my continuing conversation of baseball playgroud rules.

Baseball playground rules would actually start before the teams were chosen. Fair is fair so even up the sides, Okay ?

How Did We Choose Sides?

The natural order of things dictated that the two (2) best players would be the ones who would actually do the choosing of the respective teams.

This allowed opposing sides for play to be balanced and with an equal chance at determining the winner of the game.

You see these two best players were actually a part of baseball playground rules.

Everyone on the playground knew who the two best players were.

Okay that sounded logical, but who had the first choice for his team?

Here is one of the rules (written no unwritten yes).Maybe it's not a rule but it was how we did it.

1. Someone would gently toss the bat (vertical) to one of the players, and where his hand caught the bat, was a starting place at his fist. The other chooser, or if you will, other team captain, would place his fist on top of, and grip the bat above the first mans fist.

Alternating fist grips one on top of the other till neither could grip the bat. The last one gripping the bat would toss the bat over his head and backwards.

The bat had to travel at least five bat lengths from the thrower for him to get first choice of teammate.

Failing to toss the five bat lengths, allowed the other man to get first choice. Sounds complicated? Naw

2. Here is another way we would determine which team captain would get first choice of players.

The two (2) leaders or captains would stand side by side and hold out both fists.

Then a player would basically count off by using this ole song or ditty which every playground playing kid knew.. Alternating hitting each of the fists at each word.

He or she would say, " One potato two potato three potato four, five potato six potato seven potato more." At the more, that player would put that fist behind his back.

Now with three fists remaining, the counter would go thru this entire spill again. Possibly, the same man would have both fists behind him, anyway the first man with both fists behind him was out and the other man had first choice.

Should I have spelled potato as potatoe? It does not matter we are on the playground for baseball playing, not having a spelling bee.

Is it getting a little bit clearer as to how baseball playground rules is where we learned more than just baseball ?

My depiction of how the sides were chosen was one of the many and foremost rules of the playground. You learmed from your older and take charge playground leaders.

What Rule? Baseball Playground Rules.

Our baseball playground rules were always within general rules of baseball and the basic rules of baseball. We however have our rules of the playground. Playground rules were concerned with such things as how to choose sides and there was never any arbitration when an upperclassman made a determination of what was what.

Here is the rule. You will get chosen first, second, third or last based on your playing ability. It may sound cruel but that is the rule of the playground.--No it is not written--but you better believe it stands.

Baseball playground rules was a tough game but the lessons were learned well. It was a means by which our lives could handle subtle little bumps along the way and try harder and dig deeper and be winners.

A kid with knockout good looks or the one in the classroom who is a math whiz carries no weight when it comes to choosing sides to play a game of baseball.

Ready for another rule that applies? Youngsters who enjoy baseball playground rules and have that grit and desire to play, will do the things it takes to develop those skills which make him one of the few chosen. Desire often determines the baseball winners and with a Winning Attitude this desire and determination usually and rightly separates the winners and the losers.

To be chosen last is rough but to not even be chosen is almost cruel, but it happens. Baseball begins to teach us quickly and with out question that life is not a bed of roses. No one promised you a rose garden--is real life.

Would you believe there is a rule of the playground that will elevate your good ball players into a Hero status? Our social order has determined that a superb athlete with skills beyond the norm rates admiration and a fan following.

Baseball playing is fun. It's exciting and it has it's learned lessons which should be melded into the normal growing up process.

Structured and organized control of this learned process needs to be tempered with natural use of peer action.

Now you see what's happening out there on that playground? We are witnessing ball players who play because they love the game, plus we see they are developing character and perserverance to be winners.

Baseball by playground rules was one of the great teachers.

The Bebble brothers with the development of our little league rules sure changed the tenor and atmosphere of our baseball playing playgroud rules. When we get everything organized just right then Camelot and Utopia will be part of the Shining City on the Hill.

Now with this new status as a good ball player comes the perks of peer recognition, which fuels further quest to be the best.

As you may well recognize, my rules are not what you would normally term rules, but more about learning to grow and develop while playing a game. This game coincidently, is baseball.

The atmosphere and peer pressure exerted by the strongest and biggest controlled the baseball playground rules action.

Many of the boys and girls who played, honed their skills via their daily chores on the farm while developing Baseball Skills Country Style or within the home or the community.

There was no coach or real adult supervision constantly on the scene with their own agenda of trying to live a fantasy of stardom in the life of the young boys and girls.

Baseball playing playground rules made us accept and endure and mature.

Boys surely hate to admit it but some of the girls were such good players it embarrassed the tag along boys, sometimes chosen after the girls.

Yes, most all of the young players did learn the rudiments of playing the game by observation and as they matured they got a chance to participate.

From playing baseball, they also learned the unwritten rules about Batter Up Rule, It's my turn!, "I've waited so long it has to be my turn to bat."

They learned the game by watching and listening to the older players. The burning desire to play starts taking place between the ages of 8 to 12 years of age. This would equate to our modern day playground of Little League.

Baseball playing playground rules never turned a boy or girl into a second rate citizen, but simply made them develop into better and stronger people in the process. This I truly believe.

With the beginning of Little League Baseball Rules, baseball became an organized adult controlled and supervised game instead of being played by our beautiful character building playground rules.

In and by itself this transition was not all bad.

But from my perception something was lost in this metamorphic occurrence. Our playground rules of baseball playing are gone and we are now more structured and beholding to some authority allowing as to who plays and who will be groomed to be the All Stars.

I'll tell you which adults were there to encourage us when it mattered most. It was those Uncles and Cousins who loved the game. My uncle, Russell Keith, actually my great uncle, dearly loved the game of baseball.

Two of my second cousins, Leon and Flip along with uncle Russell, would take me as a youngster to Ole Rickwood Field on many occasion to watch and cheer, with all our might, our Birmingham Barons at play.

Folks that is what this game of baseball is all about.

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So-be-it! Remember I mentioned that knock-out good looking kid? Well, he just might be that super athlete with all the strength, agility,super speed and body size who becomes the Super Hero and everyone's All Star. This baseball playing Kid may one day be the King Of The Diamonds.

Roy Rogers was King of the Cowboys and Tarzan was King of the Jungle well one day we just might have us The King Of The Diamonds.

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