Justice Stevens is Behind the Plate on the Green Bag's New Trading Card
Courtesy of The Green Bag
At his senate confirmation hearing five years ago, chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. compared a Supreme Court justice’s role to that of a baseball umpire.
Not so to Ross Davies, who fancies the high court nine as the starting lineup for his Supreme Court Sluggers team.
Davies is editor-in-chief of The Green Bag, the witty legal quarterly he publishes in association with George Mason University’s law school in Arlington, Va. And this month he’s set to issue a baseball trading card featuring Justice John Paul Stevens in full baseball pose.
The first card, issued last fall, pictured Roberts as a pitcher and was drawn by artist Alec Spangler. It was based on the famous card of Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown of the 1900s Cubs.
But don’t try to find these cards in a packet of Topps trading cards. Like other Green Bag swag, they are only available to subscribers.
The Stevens card features the nearly 90-year-old justice crouched in catcher’s gear. On the flip side of the card are his judicial stats.
Artist John A. Sargent III drew the Stevens card, basing it on the famous playing card of Stevens’ hero, Chicago Cub Gabby Hartnett, who had his heyday in the 1930s. The background includes an homage to baseball legend Babe Ruth, the “Sultan of Swat,” who famously called his own homer when Hartnett was behind the plate.
Hear the interview with Ross Davies and John Sargent III.
Follow the link to continue reading “Batter Up” online in the March ABA Journal.
