NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmie Lee Solomon, a top executive for Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bud Selig who established youth academies and helped launch the annual Futures Game of top...
NEW YORK (AP) — Gene Budig, the self-effacing educator and baseball fan from small-town Nebraska who became the head of three major universities and the last president of the American League, died...
NEW YORK (AP) — Forced from the field by the new coronavirus, Major League Baseball is moving its annual celebration of Jackie Robinson online.
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Braves owner Bill Bartholomay, who moved the franchise from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966 to become Major League Baseball's first team in the South, has died. He was...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball will have a new disciplinarian.
Hall of Famer Joe Torre, who has headed baseball operations at the commissioner's office since 2011, is shifting to...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marvin Miller's Hall of Fame candidacy split baseball, much like his tenure as the head of the players' association.
Former Commissioner Fay Vincent, a long and vociferous...
ATLANTA (AP) — Baseball owners have locked down their commissioner and their main broadcast partner, too.
Any decisions on speeding up the game and perhaps making it more enjoyable to watch will have to wait.
After wrapping up two days of meetings at a hotel next to the Atlanta Braves' SunTrust Park, the owners announced a new contract for Commissioner Rob Manfred, keeping him on the job at least through the 2024 regular season. The 60-year-old started a five-year term in January 2015.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Baseball owners plan to vote on a new term for Commissioner Rob Manfred, a new television contract with Fox and an agreement for in-game cut-ins with the subscription video streaming service DAZN when they meet next week in Atlanta, a person familiar with the agenda told The Associated Press.
The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Thursday because Major League Baseball had not made public the agenda for the meetings, scheduled for Nov. 14 and 15.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former baseball commissioner Bud Selig still would like to cut down the time it takes to play a game.
The average length of time for a nine-inning game was 3 hours, 44 seconds this year, down from 3:05:11 in 2017. Games have gradually taken longer since 2005, when the average length was 2:46.
Speaking before Game 6 of the NL Championship Series on Friday night, Selig said 2:45 would be an ideal length.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Lerner's first letter to then-commissioner Bud Selig after his family bought the Nationals asked to host the All-Star Game.
"It's something I've wanted from the moment we got the team," Lerner said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Agent Scott Boras says the number of major league teams rebuilding with younger, lower-cost rosters has become a cancer to the sport, attributing behavior to the strengthened luxury tax combining with restraints on draft-pick salaries.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Bowman, who built Major League Baseball's digital business into a pair of billion-dollar companies, said Monday he will leave the commissioner's office when his contract expires next month.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — "Pudge" Rodriguez stared out at his father, wiping away tears as he spoke.
"I love you with all of my heart," Rodriguez said. "If I'm a Hall of Famer, you're a Hall of Famer — double."
Those words punctuated Rodriguez's speech as he was inducted Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines, along with former commissioner Bud Selig and front-office guru John Schuerholz also were enshrined on a picture-perfect summer day in front of over 27,000 fans.
COOPERSTOWN, New York (AP) — "Pudge" Rodriguez stared out at his father, wiping away tears as he spoke.
"I love you with all of my heart," Rodriguez said. "If I'm a Hall of Famer, you're a Hall of Famer — double."
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Fans are making their way to the Baseball Hall of Fame inductions outside Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown.
Former stars Tim Raines, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, and Jeff Bagwell, longtime baseball executive John Schuerholz, and former commissioner Bud Selig are being inducted.
Fans are basking in ideal weather conditions under blue skies with a few puffy white clouds. Temperatures are expected to be around 80 degrees.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers' biggest fan calls team owner Mark Attanasio regularly and wonders occasionally what moves one of baseball's most surprising teams might make at the trade deadline.
Former team owner and baseball commissioner Bud Selig is getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 30, a day before baseball's non-waiver trade deadline. For the first time in a couple seasons, the Brewers are in contention.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — With the 1982 AL champion Milwaukee Brewers watching, the surprising NL Central-leading Brew Crew put on their own show.
Travis Shaw hit his 20th home run of the season leading off the bottom of the eighth inning and the Brewers edged the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Saturday night.
Shaw hit the center-field scoreboard when he crushed a 1-1 pitch right down the middle from Joaquin Benoit (1-4). The victory put the Brewers (52-41) a season-high 11 games over .500.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Bud Selig has been to the Baseball Hall of Fame more times than he can remember. Still limping as he recovers from a stress fracture in his right leg, the 82-year-old former commissioner won't soon forget his latest visit — a tour to prepare for his induction this summer.
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Fresh from a thunderous ovation in the city where he became a star, Tim Raines settled into a director's chair in the quiet of the Plaque Gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame and only one word came to mind.
"Wow!" Raines said Wednesday after a walking tour of baseball's Mecca. "This is a day I've been waiting for for a long time. It's kind of unbelievable."
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bud Selig can root openly for his favorite team now that he is no longer baseball commissioner.
The Brewers' former owner threw out the ceremonial first pitch Monday before Milwaukee's opener against Colorado.
Winding up from about 10 feet in front of the mound, the 82 year-old right-hander threw a ball high and outside to honorary catcher Mark Attanasio, who bought the team from Selig's family in 2005.
"Bud's got this kind of changeup," Attanasio said with a smile.
HOUSTON (AP) — Jeff Bagwell struggled to describe how he felt soon after being elected to the Hall of Fame in his seventh year on the ballot.
"I don't even know what to say," he said after Wednesday's vote announcement. "There's no greater thing you can get personally than the Hall of Fame. You can do some stuff team-wise and all that kind of stuff, but personally this is a big deal. I'm not trying to downplay it. It's just — I don't know how to react."
The takeaway from this year's Hall of Fame balloting is Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens likely will get in within the next five years. Shame it couldn't be this one.
Because those two sharing the stage with former commissioner Bud Selig at induction ceremonies in Cooperstown this summer would have been priceless, a photo worth more than a million words.
Everything about baseball got bigger during Bud Selig's reign as commissioner.
What's important to remember is how. Because the same outsized contributions that earned him entry into the Hall of Fame should crack open the door wide enough for stars from the super-sized era to squeeze in behind him. It's time.
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Three decades after collusion, Andre Dawson put past feelings aside and voted to induct Bud Selig into the Hall of Fame.
"For me, it was a no-brainer," the Hall of Fame outfielder said Monday.
"I vote based on the big picture," Dawson said. "What he accomplished as commissioner, when you think about a guy of his stature, you really can't do anything perfectly," Dawson said.
A look at what's happening today at the baseball winter meetings in Oxon Hill, Maryland:
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A BUDDING QUESTION
Former Commissioner Bud Selig will be on site in suburban Washington, a day after he was voted into the Hall of Fame. His election has already raised a question with fans: If the person who oversaw the game during the Steroids Era is going to Cooperstown, should the players who took performance-enhancing drugs also be welcome?
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bud Selig oversaw baseball during a time of transformation and turmoil — wild cards and a ballpark boom, the cancellation of a World Series and the Steroids Era. For much of his reign, though, there was one constant: those first-place Atlanta Braves, built by John Schuerholz.
The former commissioner and the longtime general manager met up again Sunday, both elected by an overwhelming margin to the Hall of Fame.
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — On the day he was put in charge of baseball in 1992, Bud Selig said his new job was "hopefully relatively short term."
"But if you're asking me what relatively short term means, obviously this morning I don't know," he said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The league that wins baseball's All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred does not think Donald Trump's election as president will slow the sport's plans to stage more events in Latin America.
Expanding international play has been one of Manfred's goals since succeeding Bud Selig as commissioner in January 2015. San Diego and Houston played a two-game spring training series this year in Mexico City, where the sport opened an office last March and which Manfred has mentioned as a possible expansion site.