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.
