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Brewers announce team is for sale By DON WALKER Wendy Selig-Prieb, chairman of the team's board of directors, made the announcement at an afternoon news conference, saying the decision was in the best interest of baseball in Milwaukee. "The unrelenting desire of our ownership group to bring baseball back to our community some 35 years ago has been surpassed only by their unwavering commitment to preserve major league baseball in our community," said said. "While the ownership may be changing Brewers baseball will remain an important part of the fabric of our community." Board member Michael Grebe said the decision...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Future Hall of Fame pitcher Roger Clemens discovered Monday that he would get his all-star goodbye after all when he was named to the American League (news) team for the mid-summer classic. Clemens, a six-time Cy Young Award winner who is set to retire at the end of the current season, was added to the AL squad for Tuesday's game by commissioner Bud Selig as a replacement for Oakland's Barry Zito. It was a ninth All-Star selection for the 40-year-old, who had his 300th win and his 4,000th career strikeout earlier this season but was not voted...

<p>The self-anointed Grand Poohbahs of Major League Baseball (MLB) have deigned to grant local elected officials an audience sometime next month to measure just how desperate D.C. politicians are to attract a big-league baseball franchise. The poohbahs' unit of measurement, as it has been in every other city, is the dollar bill. Specifically, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and his fellow extortionists want to know how many hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds D.C. officials are willing to provide his multibillion-dollar industry in order to build a state-of-the-art stadium where players earning nearly $2.5 million per year will ply their trade.</p>