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I try to imagine "Hardball: 1776."
But now that I'm once again a father in spring training with my daughter Jessica, who is insistent on continuing to integrate the Shaker Baseball League (SBL--formerly the Shaker Boys League), a hardball little league that will include her 10-year-old-male, and some female, equals, I find that I must correct Power's mistake, caused by an obviously uniformed conjecture concerning our language as it is used in what was formerly an all-male game.
Anyone who has ever spent any length of time in the field for any minimal amount of innings in the game of baseball, or along the bench in the dugout next to the baseball field--and that now includes my daughter Jessica and those like her who insist on playing hardball rather than what is still designated “ girls' softball”--has heard that unique baseball language designed to get the goat of the opposition and/or to encourage the players on your own side.
The government's lawyers suspect that the real source of Lamberth's ire is not the sloppy sentence in an affidavit but the government attorneys' hardball tactics and unwillingness to compromise, which drew the case out for four years .
It is always a last resort to play hardball, but in this case a call to the Anti-Defamation League or the American Civil Liberties Union might be helpful.