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What does OBR stand for?

Official Baseball Rules


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The Brewers were working to put an appeal together on Monday, although only Webb can change the call, according to official baseball rules.
Nothing in the Official Baseball Rules governs what players can say, although the possibility of future retaliation usually sets limits.
On knowing the rules: ``I have the perfect cure for insomnia: Read the Official Baseball Rules.
00 in the Definition of Terms reads: "Any reference in these Official Baseball Rules to 'he,' 'him,' or 'his' shall be deemed to be a reference to 'she,' 'her,' or 'hers,' as the case may be, when the person is female.
08 (a) of the Official Baseball Rules states: ``When a runner starts for the next base before the pitcher delivers the ball and the pitch results in what ordinarily is scored a wild pitch or passed ball, credit the runner with a stolen base and do not charge the misplay.
MLB chief operating officer Bob DuPuy decided Wednesday that because the umpires' mistake did not involve a judgment call, and because there is nothing in the Official Baseball Rules to address when umpires can make a correction, the umps can act at their own discretion.
For 20 years, it had gotten lower and wider, umpires ignoring the definition that had been in the Official Baseball Rules for more than a century.
Source: Official Baseball Rules, 1998 edition ----------------------------------------------------------.

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