Selig's contemporaries, on Selig

ByT.J. QUINN AND WILLIAM WEINBAUM
December 19, 2014, 4:06 PM

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Q: The fact that Rob Manfred was chosen as Selig's successor, what does that say about Selig's legacy?

A: I don't know that it adds or subtracts from his legacy. But what it says was that he has a great influence over the ownership and if ownership believed that that's the guy he wanted, they were going to go along with him, because they always went along with him. But I don't think that's a part of his legacy. He made it a better game than it was before he became commissioner. The growth of the game and all the things he did for the game -- that's his legacy, and the elimination of drugs.