Baseball, politics, and justice

George Will writes about baseball and Obama’s Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor:

The basic premise of American labor-relations law is that conflicts between employers and employees are often messy, but it is generally best to assume that the two parties should be allowed to battle until reason, assisted by exhaustion, produces a settlement. Baseball’s strike began Aug. 12, 1994, and Sotomayor ended it March 31, 1995, by effectively siding with the players’ union. She thereby spared it the need to make significant compromises. This was not (in Obama-speak) judicial empathy for downtrodden labor against jackbooted capital. The 762 players’ average salary in 1994 was $1,154,486.

Read the whole commentary at Newsweek,com.