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The Milwaukee Brewers announced on Monday that they will be honoring the team's former owner and present Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig with a statue that will be displayed at Miller Park's Home Plate Plaza. The Selig statue will join current statues of Milwaukee greats Robin Yount and Hank Aaron, both of whom have been there since Miller Park opened in 2001."We are proud to honor dommissioner Selig for all of his efforts on behalf of the Milwaukee Brewers and Major League Baseball," said Brewers Owner Mark Attanasio in a statement. "The Brewers and Miller Park are in this city because of the dommissioner's vision and dedicated efforts. Just as importantly, he has remained a prominent and highly philanthropic member of our community while effectively leading Major League Baseball during his tenure as baseball's top executive."
The statue will stand seven feet tall, not including the base, and will be designed by Brian Maughan, the same man who did the Yount and Aaron statues.
Selig has been in charge of baseball for so long now -- 18 years -- that it's easy to forget that he was the man who brought baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970 and also played a key role in getting Miller Park built for his former team.
Whether you're a fan of the job Selig has done while being commissioner of the sport, be it instituting the wild card, beginning interleague play, overseeing the strike in 1994, having the winner of the All-Star game decide home-field in the World Series or instituting baseball's drug-testing program after watching over the sport as steroids became an enormous problem, the fact of the matter is that baseball has never been stronger than it is right now under his stewardship.Combine all that with what he meant to baseball in Milwaukee, and it's hard to blame the Brewers for wanting to build a statue of the man.
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