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On the trail of bogus baseball souvenirs.

Crain's Cleveland Business, October, 1995 by Mooney, Barbara

Local attorneys paid to sniff out bootleg products This will be the first October that Bruce Baumgartner and Charles Jarrett will enjoy a degree of home field advantage in their work for Major League Baseball Properties Inc. Messrs. Jarrett and Baumgartner, partners in the Cleveland law firm of Baker & Hostetler, are outside counselors for Major League Baseball's licensing operations and play on the team that combats the proliferation of bootleg baseball merchandise.

New York-based Major League Baseball is just one prominent client for which the pair do copyright and trademark protection work; another is United Features Syndicate, the owner of the Snoopy and Garfield characters. But, through the divisional playoffs, the league championship games and the Fall...

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