The Brewers’ home opener may be on April 6, but Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is bringing baseball to UW-Madison with his lecture on April 10.
“Talking Baseball: The Challenges of Communicating in Turbulent Times,” will be held at the Pyle Center and open to the public.
Selig’s lecture is part of the annual Taylor Lecture series, named after former journalism professor and university official Robert Taylor, and meant to bring distinguished communications professionals to students, according to the university’s statement.
After graduating from UW-Madison in 1956 with political science and history degrees, Selig later brought baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970 as owner and president of the Milwaukee Brewers. He has served as commissioner of the MLB since 1992.
Selig established the Allan H. Selig Chair in History at UW-Madison in 2010, which will provide a faculty position for teaching and research on the interplay between professional sports and their larger social contexts.
The commissioner will retire to his alma mater in 2012. Selig plans to write his memoirs and teach from his office in the Humanities Building.
