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MLB chief Selig will retire in 2012

Major League Baseball commissioner Allan ‘Bud’ Selig has decided to step down when his current contract runs out in 2012, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Tribune sources said that Selig confirmed his decision to a group of five MLB club owners.
 
The newspaper named three possible successors to Selig – MLB executives Bob DuPuy and Rob Manfred, and Balitmore Orioles General Manager Andy MacPhail.
 
Selig would not comment on the conversation with the MLB owners, but told the Tribune he would stay in the job for three more years, and after stepping down from it he would write a book or teach history.