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A Bill James furlough for a jailed Red Sox fan

By Douglas A. Berman

I became a Bill James fan as a kid after reading the baseball guru's extraordinary analysis of a seemingly meaningless loss mid-season by the Kansas City Royals in the mid 1980s.  Two decades later, I recall this memory because of this local sentencing story, which is headlined "Jailed Red Sox fan in Iowa gets Royal treatment," sent my way by a helpful reader.  Here are excerpts: It?s like a little bit of the Bay State in the Corn Belt. Red Sox Nation citizenship got one Hawkeye out of jail for the day. Taking a page from furlough-happy Massachusetts jurisprudence, an Iowa judge sprung a jailed man so he could watch his beloved Red Sox play the Kansas City Royals last night. Randy Barker is half-way through two concurrent 10-day sentences for violation of a protective order, but prior to his conviction last week, his dad scored tickets to the Sox Midwest showdown, according to his court-appointed lawyer, Margaret King...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).