Your Law-Baseball Quiz by Robert Cover

[thaisa]

This is mostly for alchemi, but other people on my friends list may like baseball and be legal scholars as well, of course. Mainly, Robert Cover is really cool and I like sharing how interesting and original he was. Note that I know nothing about baseball, so I enjoy this quiz on a purely intellectual level, since I have to take his word on the

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[alchemi]

1. Earl Warren

a. Yogi Berra
b. Roberto Clemente
c. Tris Speaker
d. Willie Mays

My vote - Mays. Both were revolutionary. Mays combined batting, defense and baserunning like no other player before and represented the beginning of a new post-civil rights era.

2. Byron White

a. Tommy Henrich
b. Don Newcombe
c. Jackie Jensen
d. Steve Garvey

White was not a particularly spectacular Justice, but he was around for a while. I will compare him to Garvey who was a solid but not great player for 20 years.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

a. Stan Musial
b. Mickey Mantle
c. Ty Cobb
d. Casey Stengel

Holmes was incredibly influential and is, to many, the ideal of what a Justice should be like. Mantle got by on talent. Cobb was a pain in the ass. Stengel was a great manager for the Yankees and an amusing one for the mets. I vote Musial, who set the standard for consistancy for the Senior Circuit.

4. Felix Frankfurter

a. Ted Williams
b. Wayne Terwilliger
c. Bobby Mercer
d. Cleon Jones

Man. This is hard. My memory of Frankfurter is that he was a FDR apointee who was a first Amendment absolutist. He started liberal and ended up moderate-to-conservative. What does this have to do with any of the players? No clue. I'll vote Mercer because he was a critical part of some winning teams (as was Frankfurter).

5. Robert Jackson

a. Joe DiMaggio
b. Marty Marion
c. Duke Snider
d. Ernie Banks

Another Justice I don't know much about. I seem to recall he was relatively incompetent. The list includes 3 first ballot hall of famers and one guy I don't remember. I don't remember Jackson either, so I'll vote Marion.

6. Louis Brandeis

a. Pie Traynor
b. Lou Gehrig
c. Jim Rice
d. Clyde Vollmer

Hard. I need to know my Supreme Court history better. Brandeis was a major figure. I will vote Gehrig - he was a great overshadowed by another great (who it is, I don't know).

[alchemi]

The answers make sense, though I defend my pick of Mays for Warren.

[thaisa]

Well, I hope it was fun, at least :)

[alchemi]

Definitely. In fact, I even took a shot at the game and probably will again later tonight.