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The rules also addressed the size of the baseball, calling for balls to be between 6 and 6.5 ounces in weight, and between 10 and 10.25 inches in circumference. Both sets of numbers were increased from the 1854 rules, although balls meeting the older guidelines ended up closer to modern equivalents.
Rule changes have been a hallmark of Rob Manfred's tenure as MLB commissioner. His latest idea is being met with skepticism by many as a bridge too far. This idea is the "golden at-bat."
Jackie Robinson's #42 shirt, which he wore when he broke Major League Baseball's 20th-century color line and throughout his Hall of Fame career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, is the subject of two such grandfather clauses. In 1997, MLB prohibited all teams from issuing #42 in the future; current players wearing #42 were allowed to continue to do so.
Note: Team names are given here according to the convention used by The Baseball Encyclopedia, which regularized them into the familiar form of modern team names. However, most teams in the early period had no name, aside from that of the club (as in "Hartford Base Ball Club" or "Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia"), and nicknames like ...
OK, we’ll admit the baseball world didn’t go spinning off its axis when MLB instituted the automatic runner at second base during extra innings. This rule only applies in the regular season ...
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This is a summary of the evolution of names of the current professional Major League Baseball teams in the National League (organized 1876) and subsequent rival American League (established 1901), and also of selected former major and minor league teams whose names were influential, long-lasting, or both. The sources of the names included club ...
Among the rule changes on the table: adding the DH in the NL, tanking penalties and three-batter minimums for relief pitchers Ranking MLB's proposed new rules: DH in the NL, tanking penalties ...