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Law Practice,
Entertainment & Sports

Apr. 3, 2018

Freshly cut grass and protective netting

Lawyers have done a lot of good things for baseball down the years. But, like everything else lawyers touch, there is some ill to go along with the good they have wrought.

Dan Lawton

Partner
Klinedinst PC in San Diego

501 W Broadway #1100
San Diego , CA 92101

Phone: (619) 400-8000

Email: dlawton@klinedinstlaw.com

Georgetown Univ Law Center

The views expressed here are his own.

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Freshly cut grass and protective netting
Petco Park in San Diego. (Shutterstock)

If you dislike old-guy nostalgia in sports writing, then you skipped press coverage of major league baseball's opening day. The torrent of clichés that poured forth from columnists composing love odes to baseball last week was as predictable as the swallows' annual return to Capistrano, if less graceful and charming. The smell of the freshly cut grass, the bright white chalk lines extending out to infinity, the crack of the bat, the odor of warm...

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