School of Law
Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the
Bronx Bombers
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Durham, NC
2003, 467 pages
In a series of 21 essays by legal scholars, Courting the Yankees
examines both baseball law and baseball lore. By focusing on the
famous New York Yankees, and incidents involving the team and the
Yankee franchise, the book explores a wide range of legal issues as
they relate to baseball. The chapters are organized so that the
sports fan (even if neither a lawyer nor a Yankees’ fan) is invited
to read about sports and learn about the law. Baseball aficionados
will enjoy the added insights provided by the discussion of various
legal concepts, and lawyer sports fans will gain greater insight as
to the application of familiar legal principles on and off the
baseball diamond.
“ . . . Both lawyers and non-lawyers alike will enjoy this
compendium, obviously borne of ‘pinstripe’ passion. The book is an
engaging double play of fascinating storytelling and rigorous legal
analysis, and the payoff is just plain fun.”
—Roger Abrams, Author of Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law