Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball and the former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, has established an endowed chair at UW-Madison. The Allan H. Selig Chair in History will lead to a new faculty position in U.S. history that a university news release says “will focus on the relationship between sports and society from 1900 to the present.”
In a press conference Friday night at Miller Park, the home of the Milwaukee Brewers, officials also announced Hank Aaron?s Chasing the Dream Foundation and a trio of MLB owners have set up scholarships in honor of Selig and his wife, Suzanne, for UW-Madison students with financial need.