PBUC , J/R, and Evans

[greymule]

Has the OBR rule book changed in the past 20 years? In the past 30? Seems to me that the latest book I have (2001) is exactly the same as my book from the 1960s, except that the old one cost 49 cents and the 2001 version cost 10 bucks.

I heard somewhere that the book remains the same because the MLB players have contracted to play under those rules, and changing something in the book would open a legal can of worms.

So interpretations can be given and instructions can be issued to umpires, but the actual rules remain the same.

I wonder if at some country auction I might find a rule book from way back, from the 1900s. It would be interesting to compare.