The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison is hosting a lecture featuring prominent UW alum Bud Selig:
4:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge
702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
This event is free and open to the public
Allan H. “Bud” Selig (’56 BS L&S), the ninth commissioner of Major League Baseball, earned his UW-Madison degrees in history and political science.
Selig is the former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers professional baseball team and is credited with bringing baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970. He became acting baseball commissioner in 1992 and officially assumed the post in 1998.
In 2010, he established the Allan H. Selig Chair in History at the UW-Madison. The Selig chair will support a new faculty position focusing on teaching and research related to the development of professional sports in their larger national and social contexts, including race, gender, labor relations, “mass culture,” economic organization and how sports both influence and reflect broad social change.
Selig announced his plan to retire in 2012 and return to UW-Madison to write his memoirs and to create a legacy in his chosen field of history.