You'd be absolutely foolish not to have any access to a rulebook whatsoever. If something esoteric comes up for which you don't have the ruling on your finger tips - you are going to look pretty foolish when it is protested successfully when it could have been resolved promptly with a quick glance at a rulebook.
As one poster already mentioned. You should have your rulebook with you.
I don't think I'd have the rulebook with me in my back pocket. It makes you look kind of geeky and uncertain.
Neither, would I have my rulebook out in the parking lot, locked in the trunk of my car. Imagine how silly that would look if you actually had to reference it.
Don't most of you have an equipment bag that you place in some safe location near the field? That's where I keep my rulebook.
If I needed to reference it, I could have access to it in a matter of seconds.
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