Former Baseball Commissioner, Alan H. "Bud" Selig
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Since 1992, baseball has created four new teams, opened 21 new ballparks,adopted interleague play, instant replay and drug testing, expanded the postseason with two wild cards in each league, gone 20 years without labor troubles interrupting play and has vastly expanded revenue-sharing and has implemented a "competitive balance tax" on team payrolls above a certain threshold. And on Sept. 1, 2014, in the last season of the Selig era, 17 of the 30 teams were within 5 1/ 2 games of a playoff spot.
The average attendance at MLB games last year was 30,437, compared with 13,466 in 1955, in baseball's supposed golden age. Last year's worst per-game attendance (the Tampa Bay Rays' 17,857) was better than that of the 1955 World Series-winning Dodgers (13,423)
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Eisenhower administered eight years of peace and prosperity. Voters gave him vast affection; the intelligentsia, which usually is the last to understand things, gave him condescension.
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When a worried aide anticipated possible news conference questions about a delicate problem, Eisenhower placidly promised, "I'll confuse them."
Selig has sometimes resembled Alan Greenspan, who supposedly once said, "If I've made myself too clear, you must have misunderstood me."
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the four most important people in baseball's history: Alexander Joy Cartwright (the genius who in the 1840s placed the bases 90 feet apart), Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and a fan from Milwaukee. Which is what Selig has been, first and always.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will012915.php3
Bud Selig's winning legacy
By George Will
Published Jan. 29, 2015
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