I Don't Care if I Never Get Back

One thing you can say for baseball is that it mostly makes sense. It's a pretty easy game to follow, and most of us know the rules (infield fly rule aside, sorry about that Coach Colavito). But it wasn't always this way; in fact the earliest rules of baseball were pretty strange sometimes and we are probably better off without them. Let's take a look back at where baseball came from and how it got (or got rid of) some of its rules.