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					Originally Posted by  Kevin Finnerty
					 
				 
				[The Sporting News published the OBR for decades, including the early part of this one] 
			
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 I'm not sure if you are suggesting that The Sporting News was the only publisher of the OBR.  They were not.  Triumph Books has published the OBR for years-- and the pages have fallen out for years.
MLB can also claim to be a publisher, because the word "publisher" doesn't have a crisply defined meaning.  "Copyright" does, though, and MLB holds the copyright on the rules themselves, while TSN and Triumph have copyrights to, for example, their cover art.