02683cam a2200277 4500 392429661 TxAuBib 20190920120000.0 190225s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062905956 0062905953 TxAuBib Selig, Bud, 1934- For the good of the game : the inside story of the surprising and dramatic transformation of Major League Baseball / Bud Selig with Phil Rogers. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, [2019] xiii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. 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. 20190920. Selig, Bud, 1934- Major League Baseball (Organization) History. Baseball commissioners United States Biography. Baseball United States History. Baseball History. Rogers, Phil,.