[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by Dave Reed

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.

I did not. I simply insisted that TSN was a publisher of the OBR until recently and that they were authorized by MLB to be so.