Stevens was not a baseball player, manager, coach, front office exec, peanut vendor, or team mascot.
Rather, Stevens, who passed away on Dec. 8 at the age of 60, was lawyer. His claim to fame? According to his obituary in The New York Times, his
slyly humorous law-review note on the relationship between baseball’s infield fly rule and Anglo-American common law became one of the most celebrated and imitated analyses in American legal history.
The eight-page document is available here.
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