{"id":11051,"date":"2016-04-25T16:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:39:42","slug":"mitchell-hamline-adjunct-professor-writes-textbook-on-baseball-and-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/25\/mitchell-hamline-adjunct-professor-writes-textbook-on-baseball-and-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hamline adjunct professor co-authors textbook on baseball and the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline adjunct professor and Florida judge <strong>Lou Schiff \u201980<\/strong> has combined his love for the law and baseball into a new legal textbook.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff and Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have co-authored \u201cBaseball and the Law\u201d, published by Carolina Academic Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11052 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Lou at bat 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Lou-at-bat-3.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The book was the first of its kind to hit the textbook market when it was published a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The book grew out of a summer course Schiff began teaching in 2013 at Hamline Law, one of Mitchell Hamline\u2019s predecessor schools.<\/p>\n<p>The textbook isn\u2019t just a recitation of court proceedings. It also mixes in baseball history and pop references to the national pastime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go from baseball law to baseball lore, and we try to interweave it,\u201d Schiff said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaseball and the Law\u201d is targeted at law professors who teach sports law courses or who want to teach specifically on baseball law. Schiff thinks it\u2019s also a great tool for sportswriters and for law students considering a career in sports law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the United States, there are approximately 300 professional baseball teams,\u201d Schiff said. \u201cEvery one of them needs a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff\u2019s textbook covers a lot of territory, from cases of racial discrimination to lawsuits over injuries, salaries, stadium construction, and patent infringement.<\/p>\n<p>Among the interesting cases covered in \u201cBaseball and the Law\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li>Mahn v. Harwood \u2013 1878 Supreme Court case over the patentability of a \u201cbase-ball\u201d.<a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/DSC02971.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11054\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11054 alignright\" src=\"\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/DSC02971-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02971\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/DSC02971-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/DSC02971-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/DSC02971-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pittsfield Mass. \u201cBaseball Bylaw\u201d \u2013 1791 law banning the playing of \u201cWicket, Cricket, Baseball, Batball, Football, Cat, Fives or any other Game or Games with Balls\u201d within 80 yards of the town\u2019s meeting house, to prevent windows from being broken.<\/li>\n<li>Coomer v. Kansas City Royals Baseball Corporation \u2013 John Coomer claims he suffered injury after being hit in the eye by a hotdog thrown by Sluggerrr, the Royals\u2019 mascot. A court ruled getting hit by a hotdog was one of the \u201cinherent risks\u201d of attending a game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schiff will use the new textbook when he teaches \u201cLaw and the Business of Baseball\u201d this summer, July 16 and 17. The course will explore the relationship between baseball and the law over the last 200 years. The first day of the class will meet at CHS Field in downtown St. Paul\u2014the home of the St. Paul Saints and Hamline University Pipers baseball teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Judge Schiff on combining two of the nation\u2019s greatest pursuits\u2014baseball and law&#8211;in one book,\u201d said Mitchell Hamline President and <strong>Dean Mark Gordon<\/strong>. \u201cOffering our students an opportunity to delve into the growing field of sports law while also examining broader trends in American law through the prism of baseball should be a real home run,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline adjunct professor and Florida judge Lou Schiff \u201980 has combined his love for the law and baseball into a new legal textbook. Schiff and Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., have co-authored \u201cBaseball and the Law\u201d, published by Carolina Academic Press. The book was the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/25\/mitchell-hamline-adjunct-professor-writes-textbook-on-baseball-and-the-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Mitchell Hamline adjunct professor co-authors textbook on baseball and the law<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":11052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}