BP Unfiltered: Adam Dunn and the Infield Fly Rule by Sam Miller

Cycling is, above all, a team sport, and the tactics involved are as complicated as those of baseball or basketball. "Ever try to explain the infield fly to somebody?" Armstrong asked me when we were in Texas, where he lives when he is not racing or training in Europe. --New Yorker, 2002 If you know very little about baseball, you still probably know that the infield fly rule is something complicated. It's trotted out regularly to differentiate between people who know about baseball, and people who don't know about baseball. It's the baseball equivalent of solving a Rubik's cube, or doing the Sunday crossword puzzle in ink—a shorthand cliche that is accepted by nearly everybody. It is used to demonstrate the silliness of baseball. It is used to insult women, and it is also used to prove a woman's bona fides.  The humorist Lewis Grizzard: "Women have absolutely no idea, no comprehension of the infield fly rule. The infield fly rule is one of t...