Opening day at Fenway Park is always a special day for me. The beginning of a new season. That time of the year when, in the words of former Yale University president and commissioner of Major League Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti, we can “Take Time for Paradise.” This year’s at-home opener comes on April 5, pretty early in the new season.

As I spend time in the late winter boning up on the activities of my (and Giamatti’s) beloved Red Sox, I come to the intersection of two of my keenest interests: baseball and alternative dispute resolution. The point of intersection, of course, is the utilization of a particular brand of arbitration to resolve salary disputes.