Resolving not perpetuating a problem is always a good idea. Right?

The negative situations produced on a baseball field mostly due to umpires, coaches, fans & players inability to agree regarding a ruling action have existed for quite some time.  How can so many different opinions be formulated by so many people who have observed the same thing, year after year.  The answer?  

The baseball rule book is written with extremely small font, muddled dialogue, no table of content, only rule numbers to locate a ruling action with no referenced page number the rule can be found. 

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When I decided to address the baseball rule book problems, I knew I would be facing a strong headwind. For an umpire to say these things out-loud is unthinkable, that alone attempt to write a reader and retention friendly version of a rule book. As a veteran umpire, I have never been one to back away from a strong headwind, particularly one that so obviously needed to be addressed and improved. In order to reduce watching adults argue as children observe, I have written a translation guide to the rule book that helps the reader clearly understand baseball's most difficult and frequently called rules in baseball.  In turn this will make the game more enjoyable for everyone, even the kids.

Buy the 2017 Edition of Baseball Rules in Black and White 

The 2017 edition of Baseball Rules in Black and White has been expanded to include these rule topics, Runner Hit by Fair Batted Ball, Infield Fly and Courtesy Runner.  From the total of nineteen rule topics discussed I have revised over 200 possible ruling actions into basic English, so most everyone can agree what the rule states. Each revised ruling action is in the fewest, most logical and simplistic language possible, in order to convey a consensus of the ruling's sole intent.