The following is excerpted from the book FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball by Bud Selig with Phil Rogers. Copyright © 2019 by Allan H. Selig. To be published on July 9, 2019 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.
This wasn’t the Bataan Death March. Nobody was going to die or be forced into hard labor.
But the summer of 2007 was unpleasant for me, and when I look back, that’s putting it mildly.