The Brewers are erecting a statue of baseball commissioner Bud Selig outside Miller Park and will unveil it on Aug. 24.
Selig headed a group that bought the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court in 1970, moved the franchise to Milwaukee and renamed it the Brewers. He became acting commissioner in 1992 and took the job full-time six years later, turning control of the team over to his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb. The Selig family sold the team to a group headed by Mark Attanasio in 2005.
"The Brewers and Miller Park are in this city because of the commissioner's vision and dedicated efforts," Attanasio said Monday.
Selig's foundation donated statues of Hank Aaron and Robin Yount that were unveiled when Miller Park opened in 2001. Selig's statue, which will be more than 7 feet tall, will be built by the same designer, Brian Maughan.
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Ooops...Should have read "publicly financed"
my bad...It won't happen again
A statue for a used car salesman who stole a team from Seattle, then went cheap and cried poor so he could get a privately funded stadium...THEN became the worst commissioner in baseball history?
Great idea. The guy is a piece of human garbage and Milwaukee is going to celebrate him.
Stay classy, Milwaukee.
Just got a glimpse of the blueprint for the statue.
It's amazingly accurate. It is going to be built with a hollow head, without a spine, and on its knees in front of Jerry Reinsdorf.
This might just be a coincedence, but my dog just erected a statue of Selig in my backyard.
The greatest commissioner in sports? A hack of the highest caliber and the tool of the owners. Blackmailed the idiot governor and legislature in Wisconsin to give him a new playpen for his team paid for by the taxpayers or else it would move. Then he insisted that it be built where it is rather than downtown where it might have had some kind of positive economic impact. Add to that the entire steroid era and I would hope that pigeons are making reservations to decorate the statue.
Pidgeons everywhere rejoice! Ready, aim....
The statue better have a steroid syringe coming out of it's back side! The whole “steroids era” was on his watch.
I hope it has Selig shrugging at the end of the 2002 All Star Game.
Don't tell me, the statue will have horns coming out of the head, a tail on the backside and it will be holding a pitchfork. Nothing like erecting a statue to "SATAN". Enjoy it Milwaukee!