Eugene A. Budig

(1939- ) born at McCook, Red Willow County, lived in Lincoln. Journalist, university president, executive, served as top official of three colleges from 1973 to 1994, including the University of Kansas, where he helped raise a record $790 million from private sources for improvement of academics; served as president of American League of major league baseball from 1994 to 1999 where he was involved in settling a strike, administered ownership changes for several clubs, and baseball-only parks in three cities. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, January 10, 1982, pp. 6-7, 10 and Omaha World Herald, June 9, 1994, pp. 1-2 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 171.

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