Overview
AĀ New York TimesĀ 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 changeāowners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolveāto compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain Americaās 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 gameās historyāmodernizing 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 baseballās storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir,Ā For the Good of theĀ GameĀ chronicles Seligās 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 heās shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls heās 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 baseballās continued transformationāand why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning.
Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.
This book title, For the Good of the Game (The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball) - 9780062905963, ISBN: 9780062905963, by Bud Selig, published by HarperCollins (July 28, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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