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Former Brewers Owner Bud Selig Reflects on Bringing Baseball Back to Milwaukee
The 92-year-old commissioner emeritus handed the ball to Robin Yount before Game 1 and said he hopes Milwaukee finally wins a title.
- On Friday, former MLB commissioner Bud Selig participated in the first-pitch ceremony at American Family Field before Game 1 of the World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays.
- Selig assembled a group that bid $10.8 million to purchase the Seattle Pilots in 1970, ordering the team's equipment truck to Milwaukee and renaming the franchise the Milwaukee Brewers.
- The Brewers lost the 1982 World Series to the Cardinals in Game 7, and the team did not return to the championship for 44 years until this current appearance.
- Current owner Mark Attanasio, who purchased the team from the Selig family in 2005, frequently consults with the former commissioner about club operations and recent successes.
- At 92, the Hall of Fame member serves as commissioner emeritus while teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and maintaining an office in a Milwaukee tower.
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