Professor: MLB Power Play Was Doomed from the Start

By Jack Williams*   As a sports law professor, I have the luxury of watching ESPN and calling it research. As a sports fan, I was bit by the fantasy bug in 1985, when I entered the Patriots League with my very own Mudville Nine. My vocation and avocation collided one day when my 11-year-old son asked me what appeared to be an innocuous question: "Dad, who owns the back of a baseball card?"   With that, I began a quest to determine whether a player, the league or all of us fans owned a