Entertainment & Sports,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mar. 13, 2020
‘There’s no crying in baseball,’ unless you’re cheated
It was shocking to many when the rules were upended, and the level field tilted, by news of a cheating scandal so complex that its magnitude was dwarfed only by what many considered a failure to dispense appropriate punishment.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, the late commissioner of Major League Baseball, Yale professor and baseball philosopher second only to Yogi Berra, once wrote: "Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field." It was, therefore, shocking to many when the rules were upended, and the level field tilted, by ...
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