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.

Selig was previously the team owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers.

His father, Ben Selig, had come to the United States from Romania with his family when he was four years old.

When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.

Selig was devastated when he learned that the Braves were going to leave Milwaukee in favor of Atlanta.

Selig was part of the owners ' collusion in 1985 – 1987, resulting in the owners paying $ 280 million in damages to the players.

Upon his assumption of the commissioner's role, Selig transferred his ownership interest in the Brewers to his daughter Wendy Selig-Prieb in order to remove any technical conflicts of interest, though it was widely presumed he maintained some hand in team operations.

Selig's defenders point to the poor management of the team after Selig-Prieb took control as proof that Selig was not working behind the scenes.

Selig was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

On August 24, 2010, a statue of Selig, commissioned by Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and designed by artist Brian Maughan, was unveiled outside Miller Park in Milwaukee.

Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

Selig was eager to settle the case because the judge had previously ruled that the Expos could not be moved or contracted until the case was over.

Selig later said that this call was " embarrassing " and that he was " tremendously saddened " by the outcome of the game.

In early 2006, Selig was forced to deal with the issue of steroid use.

Selig announced in July 2007 when Bonds was near 755 home runs that he would attend the games.

Selig was in attendance for Bonds ' record-tying home run against the San Diego Padres, sitting in Padres owner John Moores ' private suite.

He further decided against retirement, and after a two-year extension for the previous deal was agreed to on January 12, 2012, it was announced that Selig would remain commissioner until the end of the 2014 season.

In October 2011, Crane met personally with MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, in a meeting that was described as " constructive ".

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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.

Fred Asher Rosenstock ( 1895 – 1986 ; born Selig Usher Rosenstock in 1895 in Biala Potok in Galicia, then a province of Austria in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains ) was a prominent bookseller, book and art collector and publisher in Denver, Colorado from the 1920s through the 1970s.

* Selig Starr ( born Zelig Starobinski ; 1893 – 1989 ), Polish rabbi

Selig remains a resident of Milwaukee.

When the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee in 1953, Selig switched alligences, and eventually became the team's largest public stockholder.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

Selig arranged for major league games to be played at Milwaukee County Stadium.

To satisfy that fanbase, Selig decided to purchase the White Sox ( with the intention of moving them to Milwaukee ) in 1969.

Concerned for the arms of the pitchers currently on the mound, Selig made the controversial decision to declare the game a tie, to the dissatisfaction of the Milwaukee fans.

Related to the contraction controversy in 2001, Rob Dibble posted an open letter to Bud Selig, criticizing his actions for benefiting only the Milwaukee Brewers.

For Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.

Originating in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots, the club played for one season in 1969 before being acquired in bankruptcy court by current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and then moved to Milwaukee.

Selig had been a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves and had led unsuccessful efforts to keep them from moving to Atlanta, and had been working ever since then to bring the majors back to Milwaukee.

Selig would then move the team to Milwaukee.

Selig had already announced plans to rename the team the Brewers, a name that had been used by past Milwaukee baseball teams ( most notably by a very successful minor league team that played there from 1902 to 1952 ).

As early as 1993, Brewers owner Bud Selig had talked of a new ballpark for the Brewers to replace Milwaukee County Stadium, which had become heavily outdated and antiquated and didn't even have luxury suites.

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.

At that point, Commissioner Bud Selig ( a Milwaukee native and former owner of the Brewers ) declared the game to end after 11 innings, an eventual tie.

* Bud Selig, president of the Milwaukee Brewers ;

He was replaced by Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig, whose family continued to maintain ownership over the Brewers.

* 2001 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bud Selig

From 1922 to 1933, he served as chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library, an agency now known as the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. Joining the faculty at Wisconsin, he worked with Commons, and Selig Perlman, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Robert M. La Follette, Jr., E. A. Ross, and Arthur J. Altmeyer ( who became the chairman of the Social Security Board ) who were developing the Wisconsin progressive movement and working on public policy issues of the day.

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, who was fraternity brothers with A's managing partner Lew Wolff at the University of Wisconsin, stated that the A's would not be able to survive as a franchise if they remained at the Oakland Coliseum.