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Old Wed Nov 25, 2009, 09:09am
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I'm not sure if you are suggesting that The Sporting News was the only publisher of the OBR. They were not. Triumph Books has published the OBR for years-- and the pages have fallen out for years.
So did NBC. And, perhaps surprisingly, there were one or two (relatively small) differences. Personally, I preferred the format of the NBC book (it was smaller).

One of the differences: The NBC book said that when a pitcher was visited for the second time, he had to be removed "from the game." TSN just said he "had to be removed." The former is, of course, the MLB ruling (I think the rules on MLB.com at the time also omitted the "from the game" phrase.")
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Old Wed Nov 25, 2009, 11:03pm
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So did NBC. And, perhaps surprisingly, there were one or two (relatively small) differences. Personally, I preferred the format of the NBC book (it was smaller).

One of the differences: The NBC book said that when a pitcher was visited for the second time, he had to be removed "from the game." TSN just said he "had to be removed." The former is, of course, the MLB ruling (I think the rules on MLB.com at the time also omitted the "from the game" phrase.")
That was a NL/AL difference in interpretation for a time in the instructions to umpires. NL said "removed from the game," AL said "removed from the mound." Boy, did it annoy the managers in the summer leagues, who played "National League rules" and thought it just meant "no DH," when I enforced that.
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