How Justice Alito Would Vote on Hall of Fame
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has disclosed how he would vote on an important issue—steroids in baseball.
But he wasn’t referring to the way he would decide a Supreme Court case. Instead, Alito told the Philadelphia Daily News how he would cast his vote if he were deciding on the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The newspaper couldn’t pin Alito down on whether Pete Rose should be admitted to the Hall of Fame, but he did opine on whether players who took steroids should gain admission.
“I guess if I were a voter I would probably not vote for a player who was known to have taken steroids,” he said. “I’ve thought that maybe what baseball should do as far as the statistics are concerned is create a separate category for that era. It’s a little unfair because I’m sure there were players who had remarkable performances during that time who did not take steroids. So it’s unfair to tar them with things that other people did. But it’s hard to tell, so maybe they should just have a separate category of statistics for the 1990s or however you want to bracket that era.”
Alito also revealed that a passion for the Phillies cost him some Nathan’s hot dogs.
“Unfortunately I had a bet with Justice [Sonia] Sotomayor about the outcome of the World Series,” Alito told the newspaper. “She’s a Yankees fan. Justice [Antonin] Scalia is a Yankees fan. So we had a bet, cheesesteaks versus Nathan’s hot dogs, and I had to provide Nathan’s hot dogs.”
Alito also identified Justice Stephen G. Breyer as a Red Sox Fax and retiring Justice John Paul Stevens as a Cubs fan.
Alito is such a baseball fan that he took his entire office to the first game of the season at Nationals Park last week, the story says.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
