Supreme Court Anecdote
Kranepool is associated with an amusing Supreme Court story. Justice Potter Stewart was a baseball fan who, while he was listening to oral arguments, asked one of his clerks to provide him with play by play accounts of the 1973 playoff game between the Mets and the Cincinnati Reds. A time of political turbulence, one of the notes read "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns."
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