“Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.”

American conservative writer and political commentator

George Frederick Will is an American conservative writer and political commentator. He is known for his long-running columns in The Washington Post and for his commentary on NewsNation. Will has built a public career around political writing and analysis. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977, and in 1986 The Wall Street Journal described him as “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America.”