For the Good of the Game, Bud Selig
For the Good of the Game, Bud Selig
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For the Good of the Game
The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball

Author: Bud Selig

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/09/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Bud Selig

Bud Selig was the ninth commissioner of baseball. A lifelong baseball fan and long-term baseball executive, he's known for his numerous contributions to America's Pastime, including reform of drug testing policies and labor relations, and has been tenured for more than two decades. He lives with his wife, Sue, and they have three daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on August 03, 2019

I went to a talk by Bud Selig and as part of the admission, you received a copy of this book, signed by Selig himself. The talk was basically a summary of the book, and he told all of the interesting parts at his lecture. Basically, Selig states that when he took over as acting and later on as baseb......more

Goodreads review by Mike on August 07, 2019

Very interesting autobiography from the ninth commissioner of baseball. Bud Selig grew up in Milwaukee with a love of baseball that was passed on by his mother. After graduating college, he joined his dad’s very successful car business. That changed when the Milwaukee Braves left town. He was heartb......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 26, 2023

Bud Selig is a hero of mine. Sorry Bud, it took me much too long to read this book. It had some good moments and information, but didn’t keep me interested.......more

Goodreads review by DunkinDad on January 01, 2020

As a reader and a Milwaukee Brewers fan, I picked up this memoir with high expectations and set it down with renewed regard for Frank Deford. The late Sports Illustrated writer profiled Selig in 2002 ("Suicide Squeeze: Bud Selig Has Put His Legacy on the Line by Tightening the Screws on the Players'......more

Goodreads review by Ian on February 11, 2024

Bud Selig loves two things, baseball and Bud Selig. I liked this book walked through pivotal moments in recent baseball history, but like many autobiographies, it felt self indulgent at times.......more