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Reports: Disney CEO could be next MLB commissioner

Published May. 23, 2014 2:24 a.m. ET

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Andre Vergara

Major League Baseball is searching for a successor to Bud Selig, who's stepping down in January after serving as commissioner since 1993, and one of the candidates under consideration is Disney CEO Bob Iger, according to reports out of New York.

"MLB has expressed an enormous amount of interest in Iger as a potential candidate," sources told the New York Post. "But he is still contracted at Disney for another two years, and no official talks have taken place. He definitely hasn't been offered the job — yet."€

While Iger is in the mix, according to the New York Times, the leading candidate is Rob Manfred, MLB's COO and the favorite of Selig. The outgoing commissioner is trying to sell the owners on Manfred, the Times reports.

But Selig reportedly faces opposition from longtime ally Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox, who wants the owners to pick the next commissioner, not Selig, and is not a close ally of Manfred, who has negotiated several collective bargaining agreements with the players union.

"€œWhat I have said about Rob is none of your (expletive) business,"€ Reinsdorf said in a telephone interview with the Times.

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