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The Best Commissioner for Hard Times?
The Best Commissioner for Hard Times?
Baseball is a $6 billion dollar business that has boomed during the reign of current Commissioner Bud Selig. How will the deepening recession impact the blossoming prosperity of the sport? Will it undermine the current state of labor and ownership harmony? Will marginal franchises fail? Noted ...
Bud Selig: Major League Baseball to ban shortened postseason games
sports.espn.go.com — NEW YORK -- There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never... will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad ... (more) Bud Selig: Major League Baseball to ban shortened ...
The History of the American and National League, Part II
beyondtheboxscore.com — In Part I on Tuesday, we looked at the early days of the AL and NL, as... well as baseball's expansion into California. Today, we pick up where we left off, with the story of a man named Bud.   Bud Selig and the Seattle Pilots The Seattle ... (more) The History of the American and National League, Part II
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