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MLB Commissioners

MLB Commisioners and League Presidents
COMMISIONER TERM AL PRESIDENT TERM NL PRESIDENT TERM
Allan H. "Bud" Selig 1998-Present Gene A. Budig 1994-1999 Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. 1994-1999
Francis T. Vincent, Jr. 1989-1992 Robert W. Brown 1984-1994 William D. White 1989-1994
A. Bartlett Giamatti 1988-1989 Leland S. MacPhail, Jr. 1974-1984 A. Bartlett Giamatti 1986-1989
Peter Victor Ueberroth 1984-1988 Joseph E. Cronin 1959-1973 Charles S. Feeney 1970-1986
Bowie Kent Kuhn 1969-1984 William Harridge 1931-1959 Warren C. Giles 1951-1969
General William D. "Spike" Eckert 1965-1968 Ernest S. Barnard 1927-1931 Ford C. Frick 1934-1951
Ford Christopher Frick 1951-1965 B. Bancroft Johnson 1901-1927 John A. Heydler 1918-1934
A.B. "Happy" Chandler 1945-1951     John K. Tener 1913-1918
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1921-1944     Thomas J. Lynch 1910-1913
        John A. Heydler 1909-1909
        Harry C. Pulliam 1903-1909
        Nicholas E. Young 1885-1902
        Abraham G. Mills 1883-1884
        Arthur H. Soden 1882-1882
        William A. Hulbert 1877-1882
        Morgan G. Bulkeley 1876-1876

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