Jul 10 2019
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Baseball giveth, and baseball taketh away. In these perilous times when every little moment is a referendum on…
Jul 26 2018
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In peacetime, the MLB Commissioner’s job is hard to see. There is of course the chance that the work is heavy and…
Jul 31 2017
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.—It was always going to be a losing proposition. I came here for Hall of Fame induction weekend…
Jul 31 2017
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The Baseball Hall of Fame traditionally airs a “highlight reel” of its inductees at the annual ceremony before the…
Dec 21 2016
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Estimable baseball writer Tim Brown has a column up today that’s either about how Bud Selig’s election to the Hall…
Dec 4 2016
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Former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and executive John Schuerholz will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of…
Apr 6 2015
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Reason.tv, looking for a way to celebrate opening day, put together this fun video recounting the United States…
Jan 22 2015
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This fine portrait now hangs in the Padres' offices at Petco Park. Some people say it looks like soon-to-be-former…
Dec 19 2014
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Bud Selig will officially retire as MLB Commissioner on Jan. 25. At that exact moment, he will ascend to a higher…
Dec 16 2014
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Do you hate your family? Bring them to a baseball game, but instead of watching baseball, force them to learn about…
Dec 13 2014
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Sylvia Lind, the director of baseball initiatives in the Office of the Commissioner, is suing Major League Baseball…
Aug 29 2014
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Over at the New Yorker, Ben McGrath has a brief, characteristically thoughtful essay up about a question that…
Aug 14 2014
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After some confusion and sidetalks between Bud Selig and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, leader of an…
Aug 14 2014
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MLB's 30 owners will meet in Baltimore today to elect the first new commissioner since Bud Selig took the reins in…
May 23 2014
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If Bud Selig's commissionership were a heist movie, we'd now be at the part where the thieves were gathered in a…
Jan 28 2014
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"By 2017, you won't merely be ready to acknowledge that Bud Selig is the greatest commissioner of all time. You'll be ready to hand him the Nobel Peace Prize," writes ESPN.com's Jayson Stark, who is a crazy person. [ESPN] Read more
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Jan 21 2014
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Congratulations to Commissioner Bud Selig, winner of the first annual Commissioner Bud Selig Leadership Award.
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Jan 14 2014
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Major league ballplayers should never have agreed to drug testing. They should have told any handwringing writer who…
Jan 14 2014
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Remember when Mariano Rivera turned the 2013 baseball season into a goodbye tour of sorts, and everyone loved it…
Jan 13 2014
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Not 36 hours after an arbitrator largely sided with MLB and pegged Alex Rodriguez's suspension at all of 2014, Bud…