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Names Around Baseball: USA Today Profiles Brewers’ Attanasio

Brewers Owner MARK ATTANASIO is profiled in a sports section Cover Story by USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale, who notes the team has seen a 20% attendance increase over projections this year. MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG said, “He is the perfect owner for a Milwaukee franchise. Mark is a wonderful human being and has been a terrific owner. What he’s done has been extraordinary. I’m very impressed.” Nightengale notes the team has the best record in the NL, and “with the young nucleus of players that [GM] DOUG MELVIN and his staff have assembled, they have the talent to win.” However, Attanasio said that the team “will never be a big-market team.” Attanasio: “If they all perform like we believe they will, no team would be able to afford to keep them all. We have a four-year window” (USA TODAY, 5/4).

SELIG HONORED: Selig was recognized Thursday at the N.Y. Urban League’s annual FREDERICK DOUGLASS Awards Dinner Sfor his work in the advancement of minorities” in MLB (MLB.com, 5/3).

LORIA DONATES SCULPTURE: Marlins Owner JEFFREY LORIA Thursday donated to the Miami Art Museum artist FERNAND LEGER’s sculpture “Femmes Aux Perroquet,” one of two pieces Loria has donated to the museum (AP, 5/3).

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