Preface -- Introduction -- A brief history of the infield fly rule -- Defending the infield fly rule -- Infield fly rule throughout baseball -- Infield fly rule in other sports -- An empirical assessment of the infield fly rule -- Afterword.
Summary:
"The Infield Fly Rule is the most misunderstood in baseball, and perhaps in all of sports. That makes it also the most infamous rule. Drawing on interviews with experts, legal arguments and a study of every infield-fly play in eight Major League seasons, tells the complete story of the Rule and its place in the National Pasttime"
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