| Abstrakt: |
Baseball, football, and civil procedure all entail the use of appellate procedures to review initial decisions. The study of appeals in sports can illuminate principles applicable to appeals in courts. This Essay considers baseball's Pine Tar Incident, which involved perhaps the most famous appeal in sports history, and football's Instant Replay rule. This Essay shows that these sports appeals provide insight into important aspects of appeals in civil litigation, particularly into the key concept of the standard of review on appeal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
