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Originally Posted by Brad K
I'd really like to know what the license allows OOTP to do that it's not allowed to do without the license. Aside not being able to use team a league logos, what is there? Is the rest like being the Red Sox Official Soft Drink or the Olympics Official Tampon?
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The MLB license allows OOTP to use team names and logos. The MLB Players Association license allows OOTP to use player names and likenesses, which includes all statistical information related to that player, both biographical (age, hometown, etc.) and performance (batting average, ERA, strikeouts, etc.).
A few versions ago, OOTP was contacted by MLB and asked to stop using those things. Fortunately MLB and the MLBPA were willing to negotiate a license deal, so the game was only without those things for a couple weeks, IIRC. Unlike the foreign league that shall not be named that was removed late in the OOTP23 cycle and is likely to never return.