"The first time I met Bud Selig was when he walked into the County Stadium press box late in a Brewers' loss to the Twins in 1993, and loudly complained about his bullpen.

The first time I interviewed Selig, he invited me to his office in the basement of County Stadium. Newspapers from all over the country stood in chest-high stacks. He had read most. He was in the process of trying to read the rest when I removed a few copies of the New York Times from a chair and experienced my first Selig filibuster.

"You know, as I was just saying to Carl yesterday, and Carl is a good friend ..."

He began his baseball life by becoming a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves. When the team left town for Atlanta in 1966, he dedicated himself to returning baseball to his hometown, and succeeded when he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court in 1970 and changed their name to the Brewers, after the minor-league team he watched growing up."