Bud Selig
Organization leader
1934 –
Who is Bud Selig?
Allan Huber "Bud" Selig is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 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. Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.
During Selig's term of service, the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs became a public issue. The Mitchell Report, commissioned by Selig, concluded that the MLB commissioners, club officials, the Players Association, and the players all share "to some extent in the responsibility for the steroid era." Following the release of the Mitchell Report, Congressman Cliff Stearns called publicly for Selig to step down as commissioner, citing his "glacial response" to the "growing stain on baseball." Selig has pledged on numerous occasions to rid baseball of performance enhancing drugs, and has overseen and instituted many rule changes and penalties to that end.
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- Born
- Jul 30, 1934
Milwaukee - Also known as
- Allan Huber Selig
- Allan H. 'Bud' Selig
- Allan H. Selig
- Commissioner Bud Selig
- Bud Lite
- Allan Huber "Bud" Selig
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Suzanne Lappin
(1977/01/18 - ) - Donna Selig
( - 1976)
- Suzanne Lappin
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Employment
- Major League Baseball
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on July 23, 2013
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