Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Deci-sions, Statutes and Other Legal Events

摘要

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal"-George Will128 I am a huge sports fan, but I have a special love for the game of baseball. At almost every phase of my fifty-three years on earth, I associate major events in my life with baseball. When I was growing up in the 1970s, my father was blind, so we listened to baseball on the radio. That was the era of dynasty teams, beginning with the Swinging As, then the Big Red Machine, and ending the decade with a New York Yankees team that included Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, and Billy Martin. I spent my youth in Florida, so February and March of my grade school and high school years were marked by truancy due to Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos Grapefruit League spring training games. When my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our first child, we celebrated by going to a Mariners game in the old Kingdome. In my current job as the Director at Gonzaga University School of Law, my office looks out at the Patterson Baseball Complex, where the Gonzaga men's baseball team plays. Each spring, I add to my bucket of foul baseballs that I have retrieved from the employee parking lot. With the game of baseball intertwining all aspects of my life, I find it fitting that I was able to review Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events by Ed Edmonds and Frank G. Houdek.