Robert Cover

He also published the brief "Your Law Baseball Quiz" on the editorial page of The New York Times on April 5, 1979, comparing Supreme Court Justices to baseball players. It proved influential among law students, leading to the adoption of many baseball-related metaphorical devices.

Robert M. Cover (July 30, 1943 – July 18, 1986) was an American law professor, scholar, and activist. He taught at Yale Law School from 1972 until his death at age 42 in 1986. Cover wrote on a number of subjects, including the relationship of violence, how it operates in the law; the centrality of narrative to juridical structures; or the problem of "jurisgenerativity". Cover's interests were wide-ranging, including philosophy of law, baseball, Hebrew texts, or political affairs.

Robert M. Cover was born on July 30, 1943, in Boston, Massachusetts. Cover attended Princeton University and Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1968, subsequently becoming a law professor there until 1971, when he moved to Yale Law School. In 1981, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on the Supreme Court and American ideology. Cover died on July 18, 1986, at Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, from a heart attack. Surviving family members included his wife Diane, his son Avidan, his daughter Leah, and his brother Arnold.