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Selig eager to step aside and introduce successor

Published Aug. 12, 2014 6:10 p.m. ET

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BALTIMORE (AP) Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is looking forward to writing a book, teaching history and relaxing when he retires this winter.

Before that happens, however, he hopes to introduce his successor - perhaps as soon as Thursday.

Baseball's 30 owners will meet in Baltimore this week to vote on Selig's replacement. A seven-man committee whittled down an expansive list to three candidates: MLB Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred; Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner and Tim Brosnan, MLB Vice President of Business.

Speaking at Camden Yards on Tuesday, Selig said, ''The process has worked just the way I thought it would. I gave them a great list of names, and these names were on it.''

To win Thursday's vote, a candidate must receive approval from 23 owners.

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