Sporting News/OBR

[Dave Reed]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

[The Sporting News published the OBR for decades, including the early part of this one]

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.