PAA Baseball generally follows high school baseball rules.  The PAA exceptions to those rules are included in the Policies & Procedures documents for each PAA age division.  The PAA Policies & Procedures are available on our website.  Copies of the high school baseball Rule Book, as well as several rules aids such as a Case Book, Rules by Topic, Umpires Manual and rules Simplified & Illustrated can be purchased at the National Federation of State High School Associations website at www.nfhs.org or click on the link(s) below.  These resources may also prove valuable for players planning to play baseball in high school and beyond.

These are policies and rules developed specific to PAA.  Any policy or rule listed in this document shall replace and/or take priority over general NFHS baseball rules.  Unless a rule or policy is specifically addressed within this document, the Senior Youth division will follow high school baseball rules as published by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).  However, because it is not possible to anticipate every situation that may arise during the season in which a deviation from NFHS rules may be appropriate for PAA, the league, reserves the right to make changes to its rules, policies and procedures as appropriate at any time.

These are policies and rules developed specific to PAA.  Any policy or rule listed in this document shall replace and/or take priority over general NFHS baseball rules.  Unless a rule or policy is specifically addressed within this document, the Junior Youth division will follow high school baseball rules as published by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).  However, because it is not possible to anticipate every situation that may arise during the season in which a deviation from NFHS rules may be appropriate for PAA, the league, reserves the right to make changes to its rules, policies and procedures as appropriate at any time.

Click on this link to go directly to a well organized, easy to use online baseball rules library created by Eteamz.  These are the high school rules as published by the NFHS which are the same published rules PAA uses. 

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) rules are used by education-based and non-education-based organizations serving children of varying skill levels who are of high school age and younger.  In order to make NFHS rules skill-level and age-level appropriate, the rules may be modified by an organization (such as PAA) who chooses to use them.