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Intellectual Property

May 21, 2010

The Day Lawyers Took Over Baseball

Dan Lawton concludes his story about how baseball changes when club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner.

By Dan Lawton

This short story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters therein to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

In Part One, after the sudden death of baseball commissioner Bud Selig in a barber's chair, the new commissioner, big-firm litigator Teodor "Tidge" Huxley, and his coterie of lawyer henchmen have added expanded instant replay and electronic appeals of umpires' decis...

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