the infield fly rule - 2024 ARGOS

Question

An article about this rule claimed that it is “neither a rule of law nor one of equity,” whose evolution the author sees paralleling the law’s evolution by being “essentially conservative.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this rule. As a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, William Stevens wrote a 1975 semi-satirical analysis about this rule that spawned many parodic articles.

ANSWER: the infield fly rule [accept, but do NOT reveal, “The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule”]

[10e] Stevens’s article discusses baseball’s infield fly rule as originating from this type of legal system based on judicial precedent, used in many former British colonies. This system is often contrasted with “civil law.”

ANSWER: common law

[10m] This jurist called baseball games “purely state affairs” in a unanimous opinion that granted the MLB an antitrust exemption. Stevens’s article includes a footnote recommending this jurist’s book The Common Law for a non-baseball approach to the subject.

ANSWER: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


\|madam\|	Banned from ARGOS	0	10	10	20
Pahkin' the Ahgo	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	0	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Import Pandas	10	10	0	20
BHSU Rebirth	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	10	10	10	30
hawk two of	Clown Squad	0	10	0	10
BHSU ReFantazio	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	0	10	0	10
Clown Senpais	Northeast by Northwestern	10	10	10	30
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	Notre Dame	0	10	0	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	WashU	0	10	0	10
Cambridge	Limp Franceskit	0	10	0	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Simple Vibes	0	10	0	10
Defying Suavity	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	10	10	20
12 Litres of Green Tea	jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	0	10	0	10
NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	just one more half-dot bro	0	10	0	10
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	0	10	0	10
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	10	0	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	10	0	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	10	0	10
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	0	10
Stanford+	Cry of the Common Loon	10	10	0	20
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	0	10	0	10
Berkeley	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	10	10	30
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	throw away your cards, rally in the streets	0	10	0	10
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	Thompson et al.	0	10	10	20
UBC	Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	0	10	0	10