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Bud Selig

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  1. “Well, we were both great baseball fans are to this day, even though Herb's a basketball guy, he really is a baseball fan in every sense of the word.”

    2021-04-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 437 — Bud Selig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yes, there are times in life where you have to do what you think is right. Somebody's going to be mad, and you got to get over that because you cannot do it because, wow, this guy will be mad or that guy will be mad. And so in this particular case, look, Rob Manford did what he thought was right. And do I think the game will get hurt by it? No, I don't. I have often said, and I believe it, as you know, I'm now a professor and a hasty professor, and I talk about social institution all the time. Baseball is a social institution. Go back to 1945 when Branch Rickie signed Jackie Robinson. After David, the clubs had just voted 15 to 1, not to avow Negroes, quote, and unquote, to play in baseball. And Ricky was the one. And then, of course, April 15th, 1947 in Evansfield, Brooklyn.”

    2021-04-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 437 — Bud Selig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Right, I don't believe that it hurts the game, and I do. I used to say to Rob Manford, who served under me for 23, 24 years or longer.”

    2021-04-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 437 — Bud Selig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “He took over in 1921 when the owners were in desperate shape because of the Black Sox scandal, and he got them to give him a lot of power, which was surprising. And he used it well for a while, and then that's a whole other story.”

    2021-04-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 437 — Bud Selig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Just about the same. Everybody wanted me, David, to stay another Two months, I think it was, so that I eclipsed Landis, who”

    2021-04-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 437 — Bud Selig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source