Former Milwaukee Brewers owner and Major League Baseball Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig's frank For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball, written with Phil Rogers, quite candidly covers baseball's “steroids era” from the 1980s to the late 200s, the players' strike in 1994-95, and the preservation and growth of the game during his tenure as Commissioner. This growth included the construction of several new baseball stadia for teams across the country, of course—including in Selig's beloved, small-market Milwaukee.
Selig's For the Good of the Game admirably includes a section on the local controversy in the mid- to late 1990s about how what became Miller Park would be financed. It angrily lashes out at those policymakers whom he thought duplicitous during the debate.
“I witnessed some of the worst, most Machiavellian behavior you can imagine,” according to Selig. “I had politicians—including our governor at the time, [Tommy] Thompson, and our mayor, John Norquist—routinely say one thing to my face and do the opposite behind my back.” Thompson and Norquist have responded forcefully in their own defense.
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