“For the Good of the Game” author Bud Selig joins The Ride with JMV to discuss his new book

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For the Good of the Game author Bud Selig joins The Ride with JMV to discuss his new book. Bud is the commisioner Emeritus for the MLB and has been working within the MLB for a long time. For the Good of the Game is an inside look at how the MLB has changed throughout the years for the better and for the worse.

“What made you think about writing the book?”

“All the years I was commissioner I was obviously too busy but I am a history buff and I am teaching now. I’ll tell you a little story that i think sums it up best. Doris Kerns Goodwin the great historian who wrote the forward to my book came with her husband Richard Goodwin to Cooperstown when Jimmy Rice got in and I talked her into coming. One night we sat out at the hotel and it was interesting, Henry Aaron and his wife Gully were there and we had the best night. Halfway through it she says that I can’t let all of these stories go and that I ought to write a book because that’s what history is all about. She kept after me and talked about it with her people and that’s what happened.”

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