Selig given contract extension
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) -- Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he couldn't resist the pleas of team owners for him to stay on the job. His wife Sue has said all along there was no way her husband would walk away from the game. In the end, she was right.
Owners voted 29-1 on Thursday to give Selig a two-year contract extension through the 2014 season.
Selig has held the position since 1992, first as interim commissioner and then as commissioner since 1998. He will turn 80 in July 2014.
If he stays until September 2016, he would surpass Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1920-44) as the longest-serving baseball commissioner.
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Great. Baseball will stay in it's rut for another couple of years.