{"id":2333,"date":"2016-12-04T23:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2016-12-04T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T04:36:50","slug":"bud-selig-john-schuerholz-elected-hall-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/12\/04\/bud-selig-john-schuerholz-elected-hall-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Bud Selig, John Schuerholz Elected to Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Bud Selig<\/span><\/strong>, who\u00a0oversaw the cancellation of the <strong>1994 World Series<\/strong> and then\u00a0chaperoned baseball into an era of significant\u00a0success and prosperity, was elected to the <strong>Baseball Hall of Fame<\/strong> on Sunday. He will enter alongside\u00a0<strong>John Schuerholz<\/strong>,\u00a0the longtime executive of the <strong>Kansas City Royals<\/strong> and <strong>Atlanta Braves<\/strong>. Selig and Schuerholz were named to the hall by the Today&#8217;s Game Era Committee, once known as the veterans&#8217; committee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">John Schuerholz, Bud Selig elected to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HOF?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HOF<\/a> by Today\u2019s Game Era Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HOF2017?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HOF2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SF6CLHM623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/SF6CLHM623<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baseball Hall \u26be (@baseballhall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballhall\/status\/805552729334710272\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bud Selig, John Schuerholz Elected to Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Managers\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsda02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davey Johnson<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pinielo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lou Piniella<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0were\u00a0blocked out, along with former New York Yankees\u00a0owner <strong>George Steinbrenner<\/strong> and players <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkwi02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Clark<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/belleal01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert Belle<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hershor01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orel Hershiser<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcgwima01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark McGwire<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Selig becomes the fifth of the 10 commissioners to get elected to the Hall of Fame. His influence is all over the game, both positive and negative. He presided over\u00a0remarkable revenue growth and\u00a0had a big hand\u00a0in\u00a0enforcing more revenue sharing, interleague play, the <strong>World Baseball Classic<\/strong>, and the wild card. However, Selig\u00a0also operated the cancellation of the 1994 World Series, and\u00a0ignored the\u00a0surge of steroids into the game,\u00a0too often creating negative publicity.<\/p>\n<p>For a lot of baseball fans, seeing\u00a0Selig get elected while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bondsba01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barry Bonds<\/a><\/strong>, McGwire, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clemero02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Clemens<\/a><\/strong> are\u00a0still left out in the cold is a hard pill to swallow. Perhaps Selig&#8217;s election could\u00a0open the door for such players.<\/p>\n<p>Schuerholz becomes the sixth person considered\u00a0as a general manager to get elected. He averaged 90 wins a season with the Braves and the Royals, and\u00a0became the first GM to win the World Series in both leagues; he won it in 1985 with Kansas City, and in 1995 with Atlanta. His Braves teams won 14 consecutive division titles. His\u00a0election certainly came as a no-brainer, as it only took him this long to get elected because he had to wait until turning 70 to be eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/481856014\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.498316% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/481856014?et=7CXiGg0-QRdGdKcuD_wcnQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=-oU6n86PESuoGM6DzzAd8EjDSwE6jyQcAZMu5iG4c0A=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bud Selig, who\u00a0oversaw the cancellation of the 1994 World Series and then\u00a0chaperoned baseball into an era of significant\u00a0success and prosperity, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. He will enter alongside\u00a0John Schuerholz,\u00a0the longtime executive of the Kansas City Royals and Atlanta Braves. 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