Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season david nemec has brought back into print his renowned book the official rules of baseball illustrated along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications both large and small and in so doing furnishes numerous examples of the specific instances that led to a particular rule being created afresh rewritten or excised . In the official rules of baseball illustrated david nemec relates the history of the rules explores how the rules have changed and why and relates some of the most memorable episodes in baseball in which the rules have played a central role the famed pine tar game the beaning of ray chapman and many more. Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season david nemec has brought back into print his renowned book the official rules of baseball illustrated along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications both large and . Completely revised and updated through the 2019 baseball season david nemec has brought back into print his renowned book the official rules of baseball illustrated along with providing a thorough investigation into the rules of the game and how they came to be nemec explains the reasoning behind many of the modifications both large and small and in so doing furnishes numerous examples of the specific instances that led to a particular rule being created afresh rewritten or excised