Teaching Sports Law – the First Day

By Walter T. Champion, Jr.   In my case book, I begin with an Introduction that includes James Earl Jones’ speech from the Field of Dreams: “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers; it’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. Ray, it reminds us of all that once was good and could be again.” The point is, spo