A New York designer who is the girlfriend of Miracle Mets hitter Art Shamsky is accusing a Long Island medical equipment firm of stealing her ideas for wooden canes shaped like baseball bats and aluminum canes decorated with Major League Baseball logos.
Teresa Taylor says she had a licensing agreement with MLB to use team colors and logos on the canes but Drive Medical Design and Manufacturing of Port Washington failed to manufacture them and instead is trying to get its own patent on them. She's demanding $12 million in damages.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Taylor says Drive executives promised to deliver the canes at several points last year but never did, so in October, MLB, which was entitled to some of the sales proceeds, revoked her two-year license.