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Just A Bit Aside, Howard Wasserman Jan 2016

Just A Bit Aside, Howard Wasserman

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In "Time to Drop the Infield Fly Rule and End a Common Law Anomaly," Judge Andrew Guilford and Joel Mallord offer the first cohesive scholarly critique of baseball's venerated and venerable Infield Fly Rule. They argue that the rule is grounded in outdated notions of sportsmanship and opposition to deception and that the game would be more exciting if players could be left to their own strategic and skillful devices on infield fly balls. This Response Essay builds on my previous work to argue that, properly understood, the Infield Fly Rule is justified, necessary, and appropriate in order to to …


The Bases Are Loaded And It's Time To Get A Restraining Order: The Confounding Conflation Of America's Two National Pastimes, Paul A. Lebel Jan 1993

The Bases Are Loaded And It's Time To Get A Restraining Order: The Confounding Conflation Of America's Two National Pastimes, Paul A. Lebel

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