In a recent column we ran in the Freeman, Jim Litke tells the story of a youth baseball league in the Chicago area that had to stop having their kids wear uniforms with major league baseball names because the company that provided them with the uniforms was not a licensed MLB provider.
Huh?
I know technically you have to permission from MLB to do that, and I'm all for capitalism in this country, but you've got to be kidding me. I mean where does this stop? If someone from MLB hears of a pick-up game where kids are wearing team jerseys, do the children have to cough up money for the right.
It's just getting ridiculous.
In the case Litke spoke about, the youth league compromised by purchasing official MLB team hats and wore T-shirts with the name of the league with the city the teams were from below it, so in the end, MLB got its way -- and a little extra money for its billion dollar industry.
You guys should be really proud of yourselves.