A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The
longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an
unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on
how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his
interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans
nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is
resistant to change--owners, managers, players, and fans all hate
it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve--to compete
with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America's
Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud
Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered
in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the
game's history--modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged
since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig
goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career,
looking at how he worked to balance baseball's storied history with
the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future.
Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the
Good of the Game chronicles Selig's career, takes fans inside
locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating
account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an
American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest
names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the
vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he's shared
with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls
he's made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the
steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his
side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back
and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball's continued
transformation--and why the changes he helped usher in must only be
the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.
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