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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Opening Day is coming
and what better way to celebrate than with a 1981 letter by John Rawls, the great political theorist, recounting a conversation about baseball with another scholar. Here it is, published in the Boston Review.
Would John Rawls say that the appropriate way to determine "is this a good rule change for baseball?" is "would I accept this rule change if I knew that I might wake up tomorrow as the Baltimore Orioles?"
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Would John Rawls say that the appropriate way to determine "is this a good rule change for baseball?" is "would I accept this rule change if I knew that I might wake up tomorrow as the Baltimore Orioles?"
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