Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
In "Time to Drop the Infield Fly Rule and End a Common Law Anomaly," Judge Andrew Guilford and Joel Mallord offer the first cohesive scholarly critique of baseball's venerated and venerable Infield Fly Rule. They argue that the rule is grounded in outdated notions of sportsmanship and opposition to deception and that the game would be more exciting if players could be left to their own strategic and skillful devices on infield fly balls. This Response Essay builds on my previous work to argue that, properly understood, the Infield Fly Rule is justified, necessary, and appropriate in order to to eliminate perverse incentives and to avoid extraordinary cost-benefit imbalances within the game.
Recommended Citation
Howard Wasserman,
Just a Bit Aside
, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 145
(2016).
Available at: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_publications/219
