Talk:Ground rule double

message: In 1927 batted balls that bounced into the grandstand counted as home runs instead of ground-rule doubles, as they do today.
The rule change was made for the 1930 AL and 1931 NL seasons. See here for Dec. 12, 1930 rule change:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/1930DECEMBER.stm
I think the average fan would benefit from have the pages merged. Using, "Ground Rule Double" for "automatic double" may be popular with select commentators and casual fans, but it nevertheless incorrect. Strictly speaking. Having the pages together would help those fans understand the difference.
All of the foregoing were by Domoni and the first item by a "numbered person".  The following is by me, the originator of the article.  As the merge tag was removed from the other article in the discussion without any apparent objection, and I agree with the premise, I'll take if off of this article myself.  ;Bear 18:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

message: I understand that there is a difference between awarding two bases due to ground rules and awarding two bases due to the MLB rulebook, but the terms "automatic double" and "book rule double" have no clear etymology. The MLB rulebook uses terms like "entitled to two bases" where sportswriters use "automatic double." Of the three terms in question, only "ground rule double" appears in the MLB rulebook. I removed and collapsed the distinctions between the terms. White 720 (talk) 23:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: I have seen three times while watching MLB baseball an umpire award a runner home plate (three bases) on a ground rule double because as the umpire determined he would have scored if the ball did not go out of bounds, and every time the defensive team's manager has argued the decision. I've also heard on a few occasions an announcer or commentator mention that he thought an umpire should have made the decision to allow a runner to score, and that it's within the rules. I'd like to see someone clear this up on this page because the language of the page implies that it is not supposed to happen according to the rules (and I could not find it specifically state that an umpire is supposed to do that in the rules, myself.) The only thing I can think of is that the ump would still consider it two bases to award the runner home because he had already reached second when the ball went out of bounds. Anyone able to make an edit that clears all this up? 24.230.137.165 (talk) 04:06, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runner scoring from first on "ground rule double" 

message: The claim that doubles awarded for bounding balls over the fence are not ground rule doubles is an annoyingly common misconception; in a sense, it's a reverse misconception, because it's in the form that the correct term is the one in error. Up until yesterday's edit by , this page solely focused on "a double awarded by ground rules", which is unlikely to be a notable concept, whereas "a double awarded for a bounding ball over the fence" is much more likely to be notable but was claimed to be an incorrect usage of the term. Accordingly, I am planning to rewrite large portions of the page to include ground rule doubles for bounding balls, but it doesn't feel right to massively redo a decade of work without some form of discussion. O.N.R. (talk) 04:32, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Correcting the page would violate WP:GROUNDRULETROUBLE, so use WP:IAG (ignore all groundrules). Randy Kryn (talk) 10:26, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The scope of this page