Aaron v. Life Insurance Co.

The writer agrees fully with the majority opinion but is motivated to add a special concurring opinion for two reasons, both of which are personal in nature. The first is to pay my tribute to baseball’s home-run champion, the appellant. The second is in fulfillment of my effort to make appellate opinions more interesting as was asserted by Alan Barth in his excellent book "Prophets With Honor” (sub-titled "Great Dissents and Great Dissenters in the Supreme Court”), "legal writing does not have to be arid reading.” Accordingly, I submit my version of this appeal:

"Hank Aaron struck out!” Such…