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Selig Insists He’s Planning To Retire In 2014

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig insists he will retire after the 2014 season when his contract ends. 

Selig was at Target Field on Tuesday for a celebration of MLB’s Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.  He said “nobody believes it” but he’ll be done in 2½ years, despite sentiment he’ll stay until 2016 to pass Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the game’s longest-serving boss. 

Selig has been in charge of MLB since 1992, first as an interim commissioner and then permanently in 1998.  The 78-year-old says he loves teaching and wants to write a book, so his time to quit will soon come. 

Selig also said the site of the 2014 All-Star game, which the Twins are all but certain to host, will be announced soon, perhaps in August.