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As the calender turns to June, my thoughts turn to SCOTUS, baseball and golf

By Douglas A. Berman

I was pleased to see an interesting bit of judging data in this new "Sidebar" pieceby Adam Liptak in today's New York Times.  The piece is headlined "This Bench Belongs in a Dugout," and it is mostly about baseball fandom on the Supreme Court.  But one of my other passions also got mention thanks to important research in the The Baseball Research Journal: ?Nothing in the law of sport matches the frequency of baseball?s interaction with the institutions of the law or the tendency of lawmakers who speak of sports to talk in baseball terms,? Ross E. Davies, a law professor at George Mason University, wrote in an essay in The Baseball Research Journal last year. He provided data.  There have been more references to baseball in federal and state judicial opinions over the last century or so than to any other sport, though golf is a surprisingly close second...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).