Oyez Baseball
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 9–12
- Subjects
- healthful living (exercise and sports), social studies (civics and government)
- Provider
- FindLaw and the Oyez Project
- Special requirements
- Requires Macromedia Flash 5 or higher.
Legal
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Developed in 1979 by law professor Robert M. Cover as a quiz in the New York Times newspaper, Oyez Baseball, from FindLaw and the Oyez Project, is an online interactive version of his quiz, which compares baseball players and Supreme Court Justices.
“On the Supreme Court, greatness or mediocrity derives from a justice's accomplishments or lack thereof. The same is true for ballplayers. The Court vests its nine occupants with awesome responsibility. Some justices, like some players, are blessed with skills that not only generate tremendous personal achievements, but can transform their institutions, and sometimes even American culture. Others are quickly forgettable, while most toil somewhere in between. The qualities that make some justices great and others mediocre are difficult to explain fully and justify to those unversed in the Court's work. But most everyone understands baseball-and baseball may be the best way to reveal greatness or mediocrity. Hence, Oyez Baseball.”
