MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG on Friday was honored in the league-backed "Stand Up To Cancer" telethon. Actor JON HAMM said, "It is a social institution that can improve our communities. He and his wife, SUE, and 30 Major League Baseball teams and owners have been with 'Stand Up To Cancer' since the beginning. He is more than the commissioner of baseball; he is a cancer survivor and our friend" ("Stand Up To Cancer," NBC, 9/5). In Boston, Nick Cafardo wrote the Baseball HOF's Veterans Committee "should vote Selig right to Cooperstown when his term ends in January." Selig is "eligible for induction already." He "made the game extremely profitable, started and stiffened penalties for PED use, expanded the playoffs, and promoted labor peace." Cafardo: "On top of it all, he’s a compassionate human being" (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/7). In L.A., Everett Cook noted Selig on Friday presented Dodgers broadcaster VIN SCULLY with the Historic Achievement Award prior to D-Backs-Dodgers. Scully became the "14th person to win the award in its 26-year history; the award was created to recognize accomplishments and contributions of historical significance to baseball" (L.A. TIMES, 9/6).
