Baseball Umpires Turn the Page

In order for baseball umpires to correctly apply a ruling on the field the majority of time they are enforcing numerous, individual, but related rules.  Official baseball rule books tend to scatter these numerous, individual, but related rules randomly throughout their pages.

So, this causes anyone, not just umpires trying to find the rule(s) for a correct ruling, to begin an intensive page turning investigation in order to see all the rules that were or were not correctly applied.  Another joyless format, these rules have tiny font, spread out over several pages or chapters and there is a very good chance while searching, finding and reading the third rule of five, we will forget the first rule we read.

After twenty years as an umpire, personally I do not need practice turning dozens of pages and searching randomly for rulings. Now instead of hurriedly turning pages, searching and turning too many pages I use my time actually studying, learning and retaining the rules. I easily find the infraction, with all the related rulings from an A to Z Table of Contents.  Now, rather than turn pages back and forth, I study an infraction using all the related rulings, examples, exceptions and notes on the same page in big font in Baseball Rules in Black and White.