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The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: Selig: 'This is where it started'
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 3/16/2008 on mlb.mlb.com [flag]
BEIJING -- On the return drive from a Sunday pregame trek to the Great Wall, Commissioner Bud Selig passed a local university where he saw Chinese students playing baseball and softball. During his tenure, Selig has been committed to growing baseball internationally. He'll fly back to the U.S. from China only to turn around and fly back to Asia to attend the March 25-26 regular-season series ... [link]

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Selig: “Baseball will be big in China”
Published 3/16/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Selig: “Baseball will be big in China” "Soccer is the sport of the future."-US Soccer Organizers, Forever “Computers in the future will weigh only 1.5 tons."-Popular Mechanics, 1949 “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"-Harry Warner, 1927 “Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard."-Tris Speaker on Babe Ruth, 1919

Selig Claims China
Published 3/17/2008 by Shinsano at East Windup Chronicle
One more MLB in China piece and then we’ll be done till next season’s (I can only assume) exhibition. This is a kinda goofy MLB.com joint about Bud Selig proclaiming baseball will soon be big in China. Unfortunately, Selig will pass up the opportunity to hang out in Asia for five or six days, and will instead fly back to the states today, only to return to Tokyo Mar. 24 for the A’s/Red Sox series. Asian snubs aside Selig apparently liked what he saw in China: Perhaps no emerging nation presents the potential for economic benefits like one with 1.3 billion possible baseball fans. Selig, having lived through the Cold ...

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Selig plane returns after problems

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 3/14/2008 on www.jsonline.com

dwalker@journalsentinel.com Posted: March 13, 2008 A private jet carrying Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and bound for his desert home in Scottsdale, Ariz., had to return to Mitchell International Airport on Wednesday night after a landing-gear door ...
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BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: Selig plane returns after problems

Baseball Musings found this 3/14/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org

Cordon off the landing area...the R.Budd Flyer is coming in! A private jet carrying Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and bound for his desert home in Scottsdale, Ariz., had to return to Mitchell International Airport on Wednesday night after a ...
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Death in Communist China today

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photo by AFP, capitol of Tibet burns Chinese Media Silent on Tibet , 3/14 Deaths Reported in Tibet (radio Asia, BBC) 3/14 I thought Bud Selig said baseball was a social institution charged with setting a good example. sm
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Selig: “Baseball will be big in China”

East Windup Chronicle found this 3/17/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org

"Soccer is the sport of the future."-US Soccer Organizers, Forever “Computers in the future will weigh only 1.5 tons."-Popular Mechanics, 1949 “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"-Harry Warner, 1927 “Taking the best left-handed ...
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Vitamin Z

Deadspin found this 3/16/2008 on vitaminz.blogspot.com

10 questions I'm looking forward to hearing this baseball season This is a list that has little to do with the play on the field. The best drama the sport has created over the last five years has been found in the courtroom, not the diamond. With that ...
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