Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.

Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.

Selig had by this time become chairman of the Executive Council of Major League Baseball, and as such became de facto acting commissioner.

Baseball's new commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis took decisive action, banning the tainted players from Major League Baseball for life.

Other members of Attanasio's ownership group include private equity investor John Canning Jr., David Uihlein, Harris Turer and Stephen Marcus, all of whom were involved with the previous ownership group led by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

In 2002, the former minority owners of the Montreal Expos baseball team filed charges under the RICO Act against Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and former Expos owner Jeffrey Loria, claiming that Selig and Loria deliberately conspired to devalue the team for personal benefit in preparation for a move.

* July 30 – Bud Selig, American Major League Baseball commissioner

* Albert Benjamin " Happy " Chandler, Sr .- Baseball commissioner and Kentucky governor

* A. Bartlett Giamatti ( 1938 – 1989 ) was the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University.

Giamatti, whose tough dealing with Yale's union favorably impressed Major League Baseball owners, was unanimously elected to succeed Peter Ueberroth as commissioner on September 8,.

Giamatti was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the son of Toni Marilyn ( Smith ) and former Yale University president and Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, and older brother of Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Giamatti.

His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick, an ex-newspaperman himself, refused to defend Passarella.

He served as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners for almost 20 years prior to his election as commissioner.

At the behest of his longtime friend, incoming Commissioner of Baseball Bart Giamatti, Vincent accepted the position of deputy commissioner.

Vincent would later contend that Major League Baseball made a huge mistake by not appointing his deputy commissioner Steve Greenberg — the son of the Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg — as the commissioner.

His most significant action as commissioner was the approval of Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, effectively integrating Major League Baseball.

Baseball owners who had been afraid that their players would be made eligible for the draft during the war had decided that their new commissioner needed to have the skills and influence to represent baseball's interests in Washington, D. C. As a senator, Chandler had advocated on behalf of baseball during the war, endearing him to the owners.

On November 30, 2011, Can-Am League commissioner Miles Wolff, who is also the commissioner of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, announced that the two leagues would play an interlocking schedule for the 2012 season.

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig also came to Bartman's defense, telling an interviewer, " hile I understand that people felt so strongly and that their hearts were just breaking, to blame this young man, who is the most devoted Cub fan ... it's just unfair.

* 1983-Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball commissioner

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Bud Selig helped introduce the following changes to Major League Baseball:

* 1934 – Bud Selig, American businessman, 9th Commissioner of Baseball

During the award presentation, the Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig stated that " Roberto was a hero in every sense of the term ".

In, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots ' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee ( as the Milwaukee Brewers ) by future Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, the City of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington ( represented by then-State Attorney General and later U. S. Senator Slade Gorton ) sued the American League for breach of contract.

Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball ( currently Bud Selig ), Major League Baseball hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts.

Bud Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, never acted on that application.

The sketch was so popular that it was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, with a plaque, gold record and transcript of this famous sketch included in the museum collection — although they were not actually inducted into the Hall of Fame — over their less well-known word-play routine " Slaughter the Baseball Player " ( Who's On First full radio broadcast ), where they were looking for to buy a baseball bat and the one available was made for Enos Slaughter, and the more sadistic " Ninth Inning Steal " routine in which Bud and Lou rob an unsuspecting person by distracting him with a sensational baseball game recounting, unaware that someone else has already robbed the intended target using the same distraction.

* Bud Byerly ( 1920 – 2012 ), Major League Baseball pitcher

* Bud Tinning, Baseball player

* Bud Anderson, Major League Baseball Player, Attended Clarke High School, Westbury

* Bud Weiser, Major League Baseball player, played for Philadelphia ( 1915-16 ); born ( and died ) in Shamokin

* Bud Metheny Baseball Complex at Old Dominion University – Norfolk ( 3, 000 ) baseball

To combat this, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has proposed that the road team's rules would be followed for interleague games.

Past ad campaigns include Bud Light, Lincoln cars, Conoco-Phillips, John Deere, Major League Baseball and Coca Cola.

Although baseball's subsequent commissioners have not had the absolute power that Landis did, current Commissioner Bud Selig has succeeded in centralizing authority over Major League Baseball in the commissioner's office, relegating the position of league president to an honorary title and giving baseball's commissioner competencies similar to those of his colleagues in the other major sports.

Bud Harrelson, the former Major League Baseball shortstop and New York Mets coach and manager and Mets Hall of Famer, is a graduate of Sunset High School.

Further reading: Muscle in the Bud ( an article in Baseball As America ) by Barbara Gregorich

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

Selig rejected the television deal that Frank McCourt negotiated that intended to bring the franchise out of bankruptcy, claiming McCourt violated the Baseball Agreements although no action taken against New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon despite being in a similar position.

Selig and his family served a supportive role on the Advisory Board of the Israel Baseball League during its inaugural season in 2007.

On April 25, 2011, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced Schieffer would oversee the Los Angeles Dodgers ' business and financial operations, due to increasing concerns over the current ownership's ability to run the team.

There were 45, 596 fans in attendance, including former Senators players and Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.

* Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball

Mark L. Attanasio is a Los Angeles investment management principal who, in September 2004, reached a deal, on behalf of an investment group, to purchase the Milwaukee Brewers from the family of Major League Baseball ( MLB ) commissioner Bud Selig for US $ 200 million.

Selig would become Commissioner of Baseball in 1998.