(First of Two Parts)
By Mark Johnson and
Michael Sprangers
Gene Barton, the editor of the KCBA Bar Bulletin, has given us “Baseball” as a theme for this issue. Not wanting to disappoint our Peerless Leader, the following discussion of 13 risk and claims management suggestions for lawyers is written not in honor of someone who makes and sells bread and pastries, and who, from time to time, generously adds an extra doughnut, but of Gene Baker, the second baseman for the Chicago Cubs from, primarily, 1954–56.
Baker, brought up to the Cubs as a shortstop in 1953, was moved to second base a short...