
Genre: Fiction, sports, baseball, courtroom, murderĪn intense rivalry between two Major League Baseball teams is boiling over. Title/Author: “A Pitch for Justice” by Harold Kasselman It is a realistic view of how the legal process would deal with such a tragedy.Review - A Pitch for Justice by Harold KasselmanĪ good mix of baseball and the legal system makes this book a winner. I wondered what would happen today if a major league pitcher fatally beaned a batter.Would the criminal systemmget involved"If so, what would the process look like? The result is my novel A Pitch For Justice. My legal mind wondered about whether and how the legal system would concern itself if an incident occurred. I began to wonder after one particular game in 2010 whether retaliation could take the form of a potentially serious beanball. I grew concerned about the growing hostile feelings between the Mets and the Phillies between 2006 through 2010. I have been a Phillies fan all of my life. I was able to get a persepctive from both sides of the courtroom aisle.I was inspired to write a novel that combined my two passions, baseball and the law. I followed that up with six years as a criminal defense lawyer. I prosecuted literally thousands of cases and 25 homicide trials. One was covered in its entirety on one of the earliest Court TV shows. teaching high school While at Cherry Hill East, I wrote a curriculum guide for a new course called Human Behavioral Patterns that combined sociology, social psychology and psychology.I then decided to follow my father's unfulfilled dream, and went to law school. I was a Camden County Prosecutor for 30 years in NJ.


I attended Rutgers College, got an MAT in teaching and spent three years in Glen Ridge and Cherry Hill N.J. I spent my formative years in Philadelphia where I fell in love with baseball and the Phillies.
