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Baseball’s unwritten rules keep changing, but Tim Anderson vows to keep the fun in his game

Fight Club has defined rules. Vegas getaways? One rule.

Baseball?

There are rules, unwritten rules, amendments to unwritten rules and adjustments to those amendments.

“I’m not that smart to know all the unwritten rules,” Rick Renteria said Sunday. “I wish somebody would put them in a book because I’d like to see them.”

Renteria, the White Sox manager, has only been involved in professional baseball since 1980.

Can you bunt to break up a no-hitter? Does it matter if it’s a blowout or three-run game? Is it kosher to steal a base down eight runs in the eighth inning?