Ground rules are adopted and used for the field or diamond the game is being played. ground rules may be totally different one field to the next field.

Ground rules apply due to the physical nature of the area.

For instance if the only ball available is lost in the honeysuckle thicket and we cannot find it and darkness catches up to us the rule applied is "The game is called and we look for the ball again tomorrow."

Some how we managed to get a game underway, sometimes we finished the game, and then sometimes it ended in a good argument or fight over some rules we simply previously had were made up rules.

Would you believe we even have made up rules for our games like so many foul hits would equal a strike. Some of the bigger boys were so good at hitting, and would not want to give up their turn at bat, they would foul hit the ball pitch after pitch.

Bigger boys were in control and they would take advantage of the smaller inept players and simply toy with us and stay at bat.

This old thing about getting a runner out by throwing and hitting him with the ball between bases? Where we learned that rule is beyond me? Never do I recall someone sitting us down and saying, "Now the way you get a runner out is to hit him with the ball."

You see somewhere way back there in history the hitting the runner with the ball got started. Here is another of those just got started rules. Baseball game rules for use with only two players playing in the front yard and a runner is on base.

The defender or player in the field would toss the ball in the air. His throw would be higher and higher. At some point the runner would take off like a blue streak.

Ironically, the odds were good the defender would get excited and miss handle his catch and the runner would outrun the defenders throw. The throw and the toss in the air was nothing more than another wrinkle or version of the hit the runner with the ball.

You tell me where these kind of rules are written down and passed along from a baseball made up rules book. My ball playing buddies, when I was growing up, never really knew there was a book with all the rules.

This learning the game and playing by made up rules, although you might say unofficial baseball rules, served us well.

You can readily see our made up rules were really the only baseball game rules, for us, which really counted. Made Up Baseball Rules was not considered trivia when we used them in our playing by baseball playground rules IT WAS THE RULES."

Baseball rules or made up rules of baseball were important and believe me within the general rules of baseball we had it right out there on the playground of America.

Like I said in my introduction most of the rules we played, by or against, were made "By some dude." When watching the bigger youngsters play and waiting our turn we absorbed the rules by observation. Right wrong or indifferent somehow we began to play by the made up baseball rules which counted the most.

Nothing could be more elementary than three strikes and you are out. Must tag up on a fly ball being caught. A runner must be tagged with the ball not the glove only. Running out of the baseline to avoid a tag caused more fights than being called a sissy.

We learned the made up rules of baseball and the bigger boys made sure the rules were applied their way. If you think an umpire has control of a game you have not seen control like a sixth grader who stands a head taller than his classmates.

Making general made up rules of baseball or any of our baseball game rules did not wait for the official sanctions of the little league baseball rule book for us to play the game. We loved the game and from the heat of the day in the sun till the dark of night and mama calling us we played our game.

Rules written or unwritten we loved to play the game so we learned the made up rules our baseball game rules and we passed them along both altered and unaltered. This is part of the game we loved and still cherish.

Made up rules for playing baseball were never formalized as herein portrayed, but as you can see it got the job done, so I will leave this page open ended and add more specific data later for our real and official baseball rules.

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) playing by the rules at http://www.baseballfarming.com till trouble starts. When trouble breaks out we break in with the real made up but official baseball playing rules.

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