Selig?

[edfunderburk]

I love the connection to Bob Uecker … but I’m wondering:

Why isn’t any attention given to Bud Selig?

Doesn’t he still live in Milwaukee?

Does he still attend Brewers games? 

I never hear Selig’s name mentioned.

[Frisbee Slider]

There is the 1,400 sq foot Bud Selig Experience at the ballpark. In another sense, current owners don’t have much obligation to honor previous owners 🤷‍♂️

[markedman5]

7 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

There is the 1,400 sq foot Bud Selig Experience at the ballpark. In another sense, current owners don’t have much obligation to honor previous owners 🤷‍♂️

And Bud hasn’t been with the Brewers for many years now…….if the Brewers somehow make it to the World Series I won’t be surprised if Bud throws out a first pitch…..but maybe not…..he must be 90 now.

[Frisbee Slider]

I once visited the Bud Selig Experience and was told there was nothing to see because the exhibit was having a rebuilding year (renovation).

 

[Outlander]

Selig was at the game honoring Uecker and interviewed by Costas.

[hawing]

Bud is 91 now (born about 6 months after Uecker) and is probably slowing down physically.  As mentioned by Outlander, he did appear at the Uecker tribute day in August.  

[Roderick]

Let's save Selig for when we get to play Seattle in the WS, one of the storylines will be of Selig buying the Seattle Pilots.  😉

[rickh150]

Selig should throw out a game in the the NLCS……….definitely y the World SEries.

[BrewerFan]

On 10/12/2025 at 6:29 PM, Frisbee Slider said:

There is the 1,400 sq foot Bud Selig Experience at the ballpark. In another sense, current owners don’t have much obligation to honor previous owners 🤷‍♂️

I don't believe he's saying the owners need to, but... the fanbase.

And IMO, the answer to that is simple. The fan base has very little appreciation for what Selig actually did. Most remember or think of him as being a bad owner... because of Wendy Selig-Prieb years. 

[jason21nl]

Wrong thread

[dlk9s]

On 10/12/2025 at 7:24 PM, edfunderburk said:

I love the connection to Bob Uecker … but I’m wondering:

Why isn’t any attention given to Bud Selig?

Doesn’t he still live in Milwaukee?

Does he still attend Brewers games? 

I never hear Selig’s name mentioned.

Because Selig is still alive?

I don't really get why there has to be "attention" paid to him...because the Brewers are in the playoffs and won a series? I'm not saying not to appreciate him, but it's pretty obvious why everyone has been talking about Bob Uecker this season.

[BrewerFan]

9 hours ago, dlk9s said:

Because Selig is still alive?

I don't really get why there has to be "attention" paid to him...because the Brewers are in the playoffs and won a series? I'm not saying not to appreciate him, but it's pretty obvious why everyone has been talking about Bob Uecker this season.

Ok, but in fairness, every year we lost, people would talk about how "we need to win one for Uecker, get one before Ueck dies." 

And.. that would have been big. But, it's also be nice to get one before Selig passes. 

[jason21nl]

1 hour ago, BrewerFan said:

Ok, but in fairness, every year we lost, people would talk about how "we need to win one for Uecker, get one before Ueck dies." 

And.. that would have been big. But, it's also be nice to get one before Selig passes. 

Get one for me!   And you.  And all the others on this page! 

[jason21nl]

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[BrewerFan]

8 hours ago, jason21nl said:

Get one for me!   And you.  And all the others on this page! 

Well... that too! 

I hope I've got a little more time than Selig{though I'm sure a LOT of people have thought the same!)

[dlk9s]

18 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

Ok, but in fairness, every year we lost, people would talk about how "we need to win one for Uecker, get one before Ueck dies." 

Right, because Uke was still an important part of the team and was very close to the players and staff. Selig hasn't owned the Brewers in a long time and while I'm sure he still has relationships with people in the organization (he was at the Uke tribute, after all), no players were around when either he or his family members owned the team. 

Brandon Woodruff isn't going to get emotional, saying, "We have to win one for Bud, a man who I have never known...well except for that one time I met him briefly...because he brought the Brewers to Milwaukee!"

[BrewerFan]

On 10/15/2025 at 12:26 PM, dlk9s said:

Right, because Uke was still an important part of the team and was very close to the players and staff. Selig hasn't owned the Brewers in a long time and while I'm sure he still has relationships with people in the organization (he was at the Uke tribute, after all), no players were around when either he or his family members owned the team. 

Brandon Woodruff isn't going to get emotional, saying, "We have to win one for Bud, a man who I have never known...well except for that one time I met him briefly...because he brought the Brewers to Milwaukee!"

The city owes far more to Selig than they do Uecker. At least if you're a Baseball fan.

Uecker was loved and he hung around the clubhouse, but the guy who brought Baseball to Milwaukee and who... frankly, helped the Brewers develop an elite farm system with the supplemental picks and the IFA bonus pools and the revenue sharing, etc...

 

You can't diminish what either did for the City... but..; the fact of the matter is, the Braves left. There was no Baseball. County Stadium Sat Empty. 

Selig, a Used Car Salesmen went and got the Seattle Franchise. Brought them to Milwaukee. He then brought Uecker and Aaron to Milwaukee as well. 

9 years we'd have made the playoffs from the time he bought the team until he removed himself from the day to day running of the team after 1992(only to be brought back in to try and salvage the Molitor situation after Bando intentionally sabotaged the negotiations because he wanted to get younger despite the fact that Molitor would be one of the best hitters the next 5 years with over 1000 hits a .319./.381/.471 line.... but this is a side tangent).

 

But he's also the guy responsible for keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee after bringing them back there... helping get Miller Park built in 1996.

So no, I don't suppose you'd hear Woodruff talking about Selig, but players come and go. The TEAM that Selig brought here lasts. 

FINALLY, he also deserves credit as he, like Kohl could have sold the team and not worried about it, but he wanted to ensure the Brewers would remain in Milwaukee with their new owners and took less money to ensure the Brewers stayed in Milwaukee. 

 

Bob Uecker was Mr. Baseball. Johnny Carson, he was loved by all. 
There's no Bob Uecker as we know him without Bud Selig
No Milwaukee Baseball(maybe a AAA team to Nashville rather than the other way around or something along those lines, but not MLB team). 

 

 

My Earliest memories were of going to games with my Dad. Staying out late on a school night to watch Molitor, Young and Gantner. I don't remember much, but I remember when Molly came to the plate. 

I was at Yount's 3000 hit game, Nolan Ryan's 300th win, I got Robin Young's 500th double(it was a ground ruled double that my Dad paid some guy 20 bucks for...went all the way behind the bleachers). 

 

So with respect, I don't really care about Brandon Woodruff's say on the matter. The Brewers are bigger than any player and any one person.

[dlk9s]

[Jopal78]

4 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

The city owes far more to Selig than they do Uecker. At least if you're a Baseball fan.

Uecker was loved and he hung around the clubhouse, but the guy who brought Baseball to Milwaukee and who... frankly, helped the Brewers develop an elite farm system with the supplemental picks and the IFA bonus pools and the revenue sharing, etc...

 

You can't diminish what either did for the City... but..; the fact of the matter is, the Braves left. There was no Baseball. County Stadium Sat Empty. 

Selig, a Used Car Salesmen went and got the Seattle Franchise. Brought them to Milwaukee. He then brought Uecker and Aaron to Milwaukee as well. 

9 years we'd have made the playoffs from the time he bought the team until he removed himself from the day to day running of the team after 1992(only to be brought back in to try and salvage the Molitor situation after Bando intentionally sabotaged the negotiations because he wanted to get younger despite the fact that Molitor would be one of the best hitters the next 5 years with over 1000 hits a .319./.381/.471 line.... but this is a side tangent).

 

But he's also the guy responsible for keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee after bringing them back there... helping get Miller Park built in 1996.

So no, I don't suppose you'd hear Woodruff talking about Selig, but players come and go. The TEAM that Selig brought here lasts. 

FINALLY, he also deserves credit as he, like Kohl could have sold the team and not worried about it, but he wanted to ensure the Brewers would remain in Milwaukee with their new owners and took less money to ensure the Brewers stayed in Milwaukee. 

 

Bob Uecker was Mr. Baseball. Johnny Carson, he was loved by all. 
There's no Bob Uecker as we know him without Bud Selig
No Milwaukee Baseball(maybe a AAA team to Nashville rather than the other way around or something along those lines, but not MLB team). 

 

 

My Earliest memories were of going to games with my Dad. Staying out late on a school night to watch Molitor, Young and Gantner. I don't remember much, but I remember when Molly came to the plate. 

I was at Yount's 3000 hit game, Nolan Ryan's 300th win, I got Robin Young's 500th double(it was a ground ruled double that my Dad paid some guy 20 bucks for...went all the way behind the bleachers). 

 

So with respect, I don't really care about Brandon Woodruff's say on the matter. The Brewers are bigger than any player and any one person.

Some heavy revisionist history there. Selig isn’t a “used care salesman” he was the CEO (and the son of the founder) of Selig Executive Leasing- a company that leased fleets of commercial vehicles and has/had annual revenue streams in the tens of millions of dollars. 

Major league baseball was at nadir in 1968, attendance was down, MLB expanded in 1969 in the face of diminishing attendance and had a team actually go bankrupt for the first and only time.

Selig and his wealthy business pals from Milwaukee recognizing an opportunity purchased the team out of bankruptcy for 10 million dollars and moved them to Milwaukee. He and his partners were flush with cash and Milwaukee had a ready to go major league stadium (lack of liquidity and a pro stadium is why the Pilots went bust in the first place).

Selig’s group’s purchase was at a time  coincidentally (maybe?) that coincided with the explosion of franchise value (Yankees sold in ‘74 for 10 million dollars, Texas Rangers sold in ‘80 for 20 million dollars).

When franchise values exploded and players were granted a larger share of the pie in terms of salary, Selig and Co. didn’t keep up and made the franchise irrelevant on the field and for a whole generation of would be fans.

He sold his stake of the team for $223 million dollars, which conservatively adjusted for inflation is about 34 million dollars in 1970 money. Nominally, Selig’s Brewers investment grew twenty-fold: an elite result. In real dollars, it roughly tripled, which still comfortably would beat long term US Treasuries for the same time period. 
 

So yeah, great he moved a team to Milwaukee, but mythology aside he’s really no different than  Attanasio (or any of the hedge fund folks that own most of the teams today): a wealthy businessman  who invested in professional sports as an elite alternative asset for long term growth that also comes built in with some local power and prestige.

They don’t trot out the prior owner of the Phillies, Padres, Blue Jays etc. because nobody cares. Why should it be different with the Brewers?

 

[craigharmann]

5 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

The city owes far more to Selig than they do Uecker. At least if you're a Baseball fan.

Uecker was loved and he hung around the clubhouse, but the guy who brought Baseball to Milwaukee and who... frankly, helped the Brewers develop an elite farm system with the supplemental picks and the IFA bonus pools and the revenue sharing, etc...

 

You can't diminish what either did for the City... but..; the fact of the matter is, the Braves left. There was no Baseball. County Stadium Sat Empty. 

Selig, a Used Car Salesmen went and got the Seattle Franchise. Brought them to Milwaukee. He then brought Uecker and Aaron to Milwaukee as well. 

9 years we'd have made the playoffs from the time he bought the team until he removed himself from the day to day running of the team after 1992(only to be brought back in to try and salvage the Molitor situation after Bando intentionally sabotaged the negotiations because he wanted to get younger despite the fact that Molitor would be one of the best hitters the next 5 years with over 1000 hits a .319./.381/.471 line.... but this is a side tangent).

 

But he's also the guy responsible for keeping the Brewers in Milwaukee after bringing them back there... helping get Miller Park built in 1996.

So no, I don't suppose you'd hear Woodruff talking about Selig, but players come and go. The TEAM that Selig brought here lasts. 

FINALLY, he also deserves credit as he, like Kohl could have sold the team and not worried about it, but he wanted to ensure the Brewers would remain in Milwaukee with their new owners and took less money to ensure the Brewers stayed in Milwaukee. 

 

Bob Uecker was Mr. Baseball. Johnny Carson, he was loved by all. 
There's no Bob Uecker as we know him without Bud Selig
No Milwaukee Baseball(maybe a AAA team to Nashville rather than the other way around or something along those lines, but not MLB team). 

 

 

My Earliest memories were of going to games with my Dad. Staying out late on a school night to watch Molitor, Young and Gantner. I don't remember much, but I remember when Molly came to the plate. 

I was at Yount's 3000 hit game, Nolan Ryan's 300th win, I got Robin Young's 500th double(it was a ground ruled double that my Dad paid some guy 20 bucks for...went all the way behind the bleachers). 

 

So with respect, I don't really care about Brandon Woodruff's say on the matter. The Brewers are bigger than any player and any one person.

Beautifully said. Although the Yount/Young misspell got me thinking back to the game when Yount and Young…..why I can’t remember his first name, got mixed up on the lineup card. So many memories.

[BrewerFan]

Talk about some revisionist history;

9 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Some heavy revisionist history there. Selig isn’t a “used care salesman” he was the CEO (and the son of the founder) of Selig Executive Leasing- a company that leased fleets of commercial vehicles and has/had annual revenue streams in the tens of millions of dollars. 

Don't care. Doesn't really change the point... at all BUT he literally owned "Selig-Ford," during the years he was trying to bring baseball back to Milwaukee. 

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

 

Major league baseball was at nadir in 1968, attendance was down, MLB expanded in 1969 in the face of diminishing attendance and had a team actually go bankrupt for the first and only time.

And how pre-tell was this history revised?

Selig had been fighting prior to MLB reaching it's "Nadir," and that makes him trying to invest and bring a team, first the White Sox, THEN the Pilots back to Milwaukee... that much more ballsy. 

If it was super lucrative, it's really not quite as big of a risk, is it? Buying something that's guaranteed to make you a lot of money...I'm not sure how that's BETTER than investing when it's at it's "nadir."

He fought to get the expansion franchises that went to Montreal, Seattle and Texas and San Diego. 

He brought MiLB games to County Stadium to prove that Baseball was still a draw in Baseball. He had the White Sox, who were struggling playing games in County Stadium(which ended up helping them). He had a handshake agreement to buy the White Sox. That didn't work out either when the Bowie Kuhn blocked that deal as well. 

 

So a 30 year old guy risked his financial security and you're points so far are... "baseball was at it's nadir," while adding 4 expansion franchises and that... somehow diminishes what Selig did?

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Selig and his wealthy business pals from Milwaukee recognizing an opportunity purchased the team out of bankruptcy for 10 million dollars and moved them to Milwaukee

He was a 30 year old kid running a car dealership(which... is revisionist history I guess).

The fact that he got some of the wealthiest people to invest in MLB at it's "nadir" would seem to make this MORE impressive, not less. 

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Selig’s group’s purchase was at a time  coincidentally (maybe?) that coincided with the explosion of franchise value (Yankees sold in ‘74 for 10 million dollars, Texas Rangers sold in ‘80 for 20 million dollars).

I don't know what this has to do with... anything.

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

When franchise values exploded and players were granted a larger share of the pie in terms of salary, Selig and Co. didn’t keep up and made the franchise irrelevant on the field and for a whole generation of would be fans.

Absolutely nonsense. 

The Brewers were financially competitive year in and year out during Selig's tenure(ending in 1992). They were in the upper tier of spending through the late 70s and 80s. 

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

He sold his stake of the team for $223 million dollars, which conservatively adjusted for inflation is about 34 million dollars in 1970 money. Nominally, Selig’s Brewers investment grew twenty-fold: an elite result. In real dollars, it roughly tripled, which still comfortably would beat long term US Treasuries for the same time period. 

Again, speaking of revisionist history. 

You've done this with Attanasio, just... for some reason assuming he owns the whole team. 

Selig owned about 1/3rd of the team. 

All the same, I don't see what the point here is. He was the Commissioner. He was no longer running the Brewers. He made more money as the commissioner of Baseball than he did selling the Brewers. 

 

What's just objectively true is during that time as commissioner, he made significant strides in revenue sharing, helped small market teams and spearheaded building a NEW PARK IN MILWAUKEE to ensure the Brewers would stick around.

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

So yeah, great he moved a team to Milwaukee, but mythology aside he’s really no different than  Attanasio (or any of the hedge fund folks that own most of the teams today): a wealthy businessman  who invested in professional sports as an elite alternative asset for long term growth that also comes built in with some local power and prestige.

He's ENTIRELY different. He started out with a 100K dollar investment in the Brewers.

He was 25 years old when he started his pursuit to bring a team Back to Miwaukee. He worked tirelessly the entire time to make sure Milwaukee had professional Baseball.

To say he's no different than an y "of the hedge fund folks," who "invested in professional sports as an elite alternative asset," AT THE VERY TIME you for... some reason made a point to point out MLB was at it's lowest and teams were dealing with bankruptcy... how do you not see that MASSIVE disconnect?

 

Are most the people who buy Professional Sports teams 25 and organizing a group to invest in such a BAD investment(again, that was YOUR argument)...

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Major league baseball was at nadir in 1968, attendance was down, MLB expanded in 1969 in the face of diminishing attendance and had a team actually go bankrupt for the first and only time.

So now he's closer to 30, but this is several years into his attempt to bring Baseball back, including what HE believed was a deal with the White Sox. 

But you somehow equate this to just... basically a rich guy(he wasn't) just buy a sports team because it's SUCH a good investment... at a time when teams were either GOING or facing Bankruptcy?

Do you not see where your arguments don't just fall apart, but they crumble upon the slightest inspection?

 

10 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

They don’t trot out the prior owner of the Phillies, Padres, Blue Jays etc. because nobody cares. Why should it be different with the Brewers?

Well, the Jays are owned by a massive media conglomerate. You want to "trot" out the board of directors? Be my guess. It sorta misses the point.

The Phillies? You mean... the team that's been in Philadelphia since 1883? 

 

You may be open to the difference is you disabuse yourself of the Notion that Bud Selig and his 100K investment in the downtrodden MLB team and his relentless effort to bring baseball back to the city was NOT in fact the same as some hedge fund guy who... saw a can't miss investment(that very much could miss) or if you better acquaint yourself with the Brewers financial competitiveness during the 70s and 80s when they regularly spent like the large market teams. In fact...Yount was a record setting contract.

 

But hey, go get someone from the Phillies thread and tell me how an owner saved Baseball and is the entire reason there's professional Baseball in Philadelphia... and see if you can't change my mind.