MLB Rules Quiz and article

[David B]

Was just reading on ESPN. Interesting article although they all seem to think that "instant replay" is the answer to all of the rules etc., which is crazy. I love the analogy they give to football, how football has correct its problems ... say what ... every year there are more complaints about missed rules in football every Sunday.

Oh well, here's the article

The quiz is interesting also, have to admit i missed one though - one about the manager returning.

How well do we know baseball's rules? Take our quiz - ESPN

Thanks
DAvid

[MD Longhorn]

YOUR SCORE100%

You answered 10 out of the 10 questions correctly (shown in bold).
Total Participants: 108773

Yeah me.

Surprising to me, though - the percent right on each one:
1) 40.2
2) 49.6
3) 46.3
4) 46.3
5) 33.5 (really ... thought that one to be easy)
6) 25.9
7) 52.8
8) 19.8 (wow)
9) 28.2
10) 25.9

[BigUmp56]

Not surprising to me was the sports announcers scoring just over 40% on such a remedial test.

Tim.

[MD Longhorn]

Makes me wonder what the percentages would be on "The hands are part of the bat".

[bob jenkins]

There isn't anyone who participates regularly here or on ABUA (or anywhere else) who should get less than 9 / 10 (and I'm being generous and allowing a question to be misread).

[Rich]

Average score (when I took it in less than 2 minutes and score 100%) - 37%.

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

Not surprising to me was the sports announcers scoring just over 40% on such a remedial test.

Tim.

"You can see why players (and everybody else) messed these up, right? These plays rarely happen. And these rules seem to veer in the opposite direction of almost identical situations that more commonly do happen."

My favorite quote.

Rita

[Publius]

An umpire bragging about a score of 100% on that test is like a retired major-league hitter bragging about hitting 50 home runs in beer-league softball.

[rbmartin]

Most of these are pretty simple stuff.
Question #5 states "makes a leaping catch and falls into the stands, holding on to the ball..."
I think maybe someone should clarify what is meant by the phrase "into the stands" (same wording as in rule 7.04c).