Reply #7: it was great fun

[gkhouston]

I went back and re-read it over lunch (his blogs are generally worth a second or seventh look) and I couldn't help but grin at the prospect of someone taking a film crew down to one of the spring training camps and telling the team: "today, we're going to have a practice game according to the rules from 1883 (or 1891 or 1908, etc.)" and watch the players' eyes bug out as they try to adapt to the different rules and equipment of a game they think they know inside out.