| Sports Stage 2: Work with Subject |   |
Baseball
as a subject is too broad; we needed to narrow it.
We looked up:
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"baseball" in general encyclopedia
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We decided to focus on Major League Baseball.
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Narrowing the subject, rules of the game are a possibility
We next looked in:
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Baseball Encyclopedia--it wasn't helpful
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The New Dickson baseball Dictionary--had lots of good definitions
One rule in the dictionary looked interesting to us: the balk rule.*
*The balk rule (in Major League Baseball):
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Rule 8.01 under a-d: if the pitcher does certain actions a balk should be called.
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Rule 8.05 covers the balk rule when runners are on base.
