[BretMan]

They are there...or, at least, I will say that I have accessed them many times so far this year.

The difference from last year is that the NFHS website has changed the links to find the rule books. It took me awhile to figure this out, and at first I thought that the books weren't available myself.

I access them by:

- Logging in. (You must be registered and logged in to access these).

- Click "Resourse Library" from the "Quick Links" menu in the upper left corner of the screen. (Weird glitch here- sometimes the "Resource Library" link does not appear in the menu! It will usually pop up if you refresh the page, or if you go to another page.)

- On the "Search" page that pops up, click "Rules Information" from the "Available Subcategories" section at the bottom of the page. Give it a minute- sometimes it takes as much as ten seconds to generate the list of categories. (Another weird glitch- if you type "baseball"- or any other sport- in the search box, you get several pages of links that don't have anything to do with the subject you requested. Or, sometimes, you get a blank page.))

- A list of all the available rule and case books (pretty much for every sport) will pop up.

- Click the "Baseball" link and you'll find what you're looking for!

For whatever reason, the process for finding these books is more cumbersome that it was last year. You have to go through multiple links, the links aren't especially intuitive or user-friendly and, in some cases, the links you need aren't even there. But the rule and case books are available for download- if you can find them!