Intellectual Property
May 20, 2010
The Day Lawyers Took Over Baseball
Dan Lawton imagines a time where baseball club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner to negotiate deals, reform rules and tweak the game.
By Dan Lawton
This short story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters therein to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Baseball changed, some thought for the worse, the day its commissioner, Bud Selig, had a massive heart attack while getting his weekly Friday morning haircut at Sal Lococo's in Milwaukee. It was Oct. 1, 2010. The club owners didn't waste much time picking a new commissioner. &quo...
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