... NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig would like to tinker with the World Series schedule but is adamant the Fall Classic will not be moved away from hometown fans. Selig told Reuters he yearns for a World Series day game and an...
...conspiracy question has to be this: Who's making these rulings, the NFL office or NBC and Fox? I mean, we already know that Bud Selig is Fox's baseball lackey. That's how we ended up with a cockamamie home-field rule for the World Series based on a silly...
...YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, whose sport is coming off a record year, downplayed expectations for the 2009 season, saying the game is no longer recession-proof with too much uncertainty to predict attendance or revenues....
...YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig would like to tinker with the World Series schedule but is adamant the Fall Classic will not be moved away from hometown fans. Selig told Reuters he yearns for a World Series day game and an...
Background
Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, Jr. (born July 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and has served in that capacity since 1992, though not formally until 1998. Selig oversaw baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleague play, and the merging of the National and American leagues under the Office of the Commissioner. He was instrumental in organizing the World Baseball Classic in 2006. Selig also introduced revenue sharing. He is credited for the financial turnaround of baseball during his tenure with a 400 percent increase in the revenue of MLB and annual record breaking attendance. Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners. Baseball historian Jerome Holtzman notes Selig as the best commissioner in baseball history.
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