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Well, MLB's online rules are several years old. The Sporting News is simply the entity that puts the rules into print for en masse consumption. We have a summer college league and another high school varsity level summer league that both play under what they always call "Pro Rules," yet they understand that this is "Official Baseball Rules." In the umpiring profession, of course, we refer to it as "OBR," which makes it easier linguistically, I guess.
Regardless, it was explained to me that MiLB is bound by these rules and their 23 changes, and that they will apply to MLB "officially" when the Players Assn. approves them. How and when that happens I don't presently know.
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