4B | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2018 | SIUSLAW NEWS
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Siuslaw senior Makenzie York (center) signs her Letter of Intent for Western Oregon University as her parents Wendy and Charlie York, along with brother Logan, look on.
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from 1B
student section — a chant
that will likely follow York to
Little
from 1B
time and time again. Per-
haps the veterans assume
players know these unwritten
rules.
Yet unwritten is just that:
not written down but passed
down from one generation of
players to the next.
In the movie “A Few Good
Men,” Corporal Barnes is
testifying. Captain Jack Ross
asks, “Where is it written in
the manual about a code red?”
to which Barnes responds, “It
is not in there.” As Ross leaves
the witness, Lt. Daniel Kaff ee
grabs the manual and gives it
back to Barnes and asks him,
“Where in there [the manual]
is the directions to the mess
hall?” Barnes replies, “It’s not
in there.” Kaff ee then asks,
“Th en how do you know
where to eat?”
“I just follow the crowd.”
Barnes replies.
Many unwritten rules are
taught by example. When
a player hits a home run he
is needs to just run the bas-
es without celebrating while
on the base path. If a player
tries to show-up the oppos-
ing pitcher, it leads to retali-
ation by the pitcher; the next
the Wolves’ den and the
Great Northwest Athletic
Conference, where she won’t
be the only Siuslaw alumni
competing on the court.
batter — or the next time the
home-run hitter — steps to
the plate, they will likely be
pitched high and tight. Pitch-
ers were expected to take
some measure of retaliation.
It was an acceptable part of
baseball. But rules changed.
Now, if a pitcher retaliates, he
is ejected from the game.
It is the responsibility of the
runner on fi rst base to do all
they can to prevent a double
play on a ground ball. Pre-
viously, players went out of
their way — not to mention
out of the base line — to
make sure they “take out the
player covering second base”
to make the throw to fi rst
base more diffi cult. Today,
rules say the runner must be
able to touch the base when
sliding into second base.
If not an automatic out will
occur.
Another unwritten rule is:
“Do not rub it!” When a bat-
ter is struck by a pitched ball,
he is to drop the bat and jog
to fi rst base. Th e struck bat-
ter is to make no indication
the pitcher hurt him. I be-
lieve this is primarily to show
teammates not to fear being
hit with a pitched ball rather
than a “He ain’t got nothing”
Elyssa Rose, a 2017 gradu-
ate and past league all-star,
is currently a sophomore at
Concordia University.
That means the two will
mentality.
In 1986, Dean Anderson,
an all-league pitcher at Siu-
slaw High School, was at the
plate. Anderson pitched left
handed but batted right. Th is
exposed his pitching arm to
the opposing pitchers. We
were playing the team from
the south when he was struck
with a pitch on his left elbow.
I heard the sound of leather
striking fl esh from my po-
sition all the way down the
third-base line.
As I rushed to the dugout to
get an ice pack, Anderson
casually tossed his bat and
jogged to fi rst base. I was con-
vinced he would need to leave
the game. As I jogged towards
the base, he waved me back
to the dugout. I told my relief
pitcher to get warmed up. By
the time the inning ended,
Anderson’s elbow was swol-
len and there were baseball
stitch marks on the elbow.
When I told him to put ice on
it and rest his arm, he looked
at me and said, “I’ve got a
game to pitch.”
We lost the game 2-1 and
Anderson pitched the entire
game. He later had a single
and drove in the only Siuslaw
run. Th e next day, his elbow
be competing in the same
conference in the fall.
York and Rose played
together for two seasons on
the Vikings between 2016
was black and blue and had
swollen to the size of a grape-
fruit. He never missed a prac-
tice or game.
Anderson was a prime exam-
ple of a player who “Did not
rub it.”
Another unwritten rule?
Don’t speak to a pitcher
throwing a no-hitter. You
also do not bunt to break up a
no-hitter during the last three
innings of the game. Some of
you know other unwritten
rules.
Today, it seems there are few-
er and fewer unwritten rules
being passed down to the
next generation. I think it’s
too bad the rule makers are
reducing the number of those
unwritten rules.
and 2017.
Though York has a partic-
ular interest in graphic
design, “she wants to take
different classes to decided
what interests her the most.”
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