Kahn: Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Are Ridiculous

By Andrew Kahn
Major League Baseball’s unwritten rules have become a list that Goldilocks can appreciate. You can’t run around the bases too slow, like Yasiel Puig did recently against the Mets. And you shouldn’t run too fast, like Adam Rosales does. You have to trot just right or else risk upsetting the self-appointed keepers of the game.
Unwritten rules—not written down because they are silly and weren’t worth recording—are unique to baseball, at least among