Reasonable people might disagree whether someone had her fair innings.
On an alternative view, a person's claim on resources steadily diminishes the longer she lives: she has had more of a fair innings.
There is an allotted number of innings, a life span if you will, but the duration of a baseball game is not fixed.
There are surely opportunities also that we are only beg inning to understand.
Note also that fair innings arguments are usually put forward in the context of the distribution of resources for saving or extending lives.
Up to that point they have equal entitlement to healthcare; beyond the fair innings they are given very low priority.
The older person is saved for certain, although she already had her fair innings.
But if a person has had her fair innings, saving her has strictly smaller value (perhaps none at all).
