‘Can I Get It Back?’ — Do Team Sports Museums Have a Right to Donate or Sell Donated Artifacts to Third Parties?

By Edward H. Schauder, Esq.   “Can I get it back?” This is a question that I’ve heard raised several times during my career as a sports attorney and always in the same context.   The first time that this question was posed to me the voice on the other end of the phone was a frail, elderly African American gentleman who was introduced to me by Richard Berg, a music producer. I did not know at the time that the call would change my life forever. The voice belonged to Jimmie Crutchf