Bud Selig
Bud Selig
Allan Huber "Bud" Seligis an American baseball executive who currently serves as the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball. Previously, he served as the ninth Commissioner of Baseball. He initially served as the acting commissioner beginning in 1992 before being named the official commissioner in 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth30 July 1934
CityMilwaukee, WI
CountryUnited States of America
We have to do it right. I can't let any other factors enter into it. Whatever is to be done has to be done very thoroughly and right.
If we cannot resolve this issue privately, I gladly will accept whatever help is offered by Senator McCain to achieve our ultimate goal,
It's going to be a very tense situation, I think, for all parties, ... But he's entitled to come back. And if he wants to come back, and I guess he does, he'll be back. And whatever the reaction is going to be, whether it's in Camden Yards or around the American League, is something he's going to have to live with.
While I would prefer to resolve this problem directly to the Players Association and jointly implement a much stronger drug-testing policy, one modeled after our program in the minor leagues, I gladly will accept whatever help is offered by Senator McCain to achieve our ultimate goal,
For whatever one wants to say, from 1998 on we've come as a sport a long way. I can only deal with the present and the future.
He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens. We're going to let nature take its course. Commissioners don't sit around and say, 'I hope this guy breaks it or not.
He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.
I don't think that's true at all. There's no facts to support that and we're doing everything we can. We've taken care of the present future. Senator Mitchell has complete autonomy to go do whatever he has to do, wherever he has to go. In the meantime our minor league program is in its sixth year.
We changed the game more than any decade in the history of the sport and Sandy was in the middle of all of that.
We're very close. Well before the season's over, we should be done. I'm very pleased with that -- a wonderful end to a tough story. This was a situation fraught with a lot of potential problems. It's going to come to an end; we're going to come out of the ownership business. The commissioner will be delighted.
I've often said I won't rest until I rid the sport of steroids. If we can't solve our problems, then I submit to you the government should do what it has to do.
It would be unfair and terribly unsettling for them to be half a world away -- away from their families at this critical juncture.
These media reports and rumors are totally, and completely inaccurate, and do not deserve further comment.
The sport is having its greatest year, ... We're going to top 54 million people in attendance (Saturday), and we could come close to 55 million by (today). We're at a stunning attendance pace.