Insights and Anecdotes from an American Sports Legend, Bud Selig
Do Milwaukeeans – or at least enough Milwaukeeans – appreciate what an amazing figure Bud Selig is? Not only in terms of changing baseball, but in terms of changing things that are now big parts of the fabric of American culture?
As Selig often says, baseball is a social institution. It’s a key part of American culture. The game is not called the national pastime without good reason.
Major league baseball today is a far different game than it was, say, 40 years ago. And Selig, who grew up on the west side of Milwaukee and took a hard-to-imagine route to become the commissioner of baseball from 1992 to 2015, has been at the center of just about every change.