Now you make me feel bad, I hope I was right!
I just don't remember ever running across some of those unwritten rules.
Nice site Lenny! Keep on keeping on!

Lenny...
I have a disagreement with #-5,6,7 and 14.
In over 65 years of playing/managing baseball, I have never heard of these 4 unwritten rules. I do know some players take exception to them...like, "Don't slide with your spikes up, at 2nd base!"
#14- this has never been an unwritten rule except in someones mind that happened to write a book (or post)...no disrespect to you Lenny! Of course it is only my opinion/and long years.
It so happens, the 2nd baseman (of your team) will take you out a kick your a-- himself, because he is the target of the other team...if you do it to them 1st! Besides that, I have a lot of cuts on my arms from spikes at 2nd base.
#7-Some pitchers (most leftys) are wired a little strangely, a guy having a bad day will blow off steam anyway he can and his manager will back him up....no such rule!
#6-Who ever 1st wrote that rule into the unwritten rules is a fool...what do you think the fielders are doing when a ball is hit to the out field...they are yelling to the out fielder to throw it here etc., to keep the guy on 1st looking for the ball when he should have been running all out...games man ship...no rule!
#5-I think someone forgot to tell Sal "The Barber" Magglie about that rule. It is in the real rule books and has never been a unwritten rule. Players on your team may not want you to do it anyhow...no unwritten rule!
Lenny your posting was very good, but sometimes a manager and a beat writter will get together and say something is this way or that, when in fact, they were backing up one of the players...so he doesn't look like a fool!
Again, no disrespect to your fine story at all. just saying what I know to be the truth!

Very good Uncle Mike! Ain't dat da truf!

At SS, a 37 year old is like having a 40 year old playing CF...just a bit of fact. Most all the really good SS changed position by 35 or they became back-ups.
I just don't understand why some fans (and Jeter) think he is better then his age is showing him to be. Yes, anything he reaches is an out but, he reaches less then any other SS around. His hitting is on par with his age also, if he were a power hitter, that would be a different story but, he isn't.
Bottom line is; Jeter is no longer the HOF player of the past. 3,000 hits gets one into the HOF, I'll bet their are a lot of guys that wish they had known that before they quit.