MLB Statement on Japan

Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig issued the following statement today:

 ”All of us at Major League Baseball are thinking of our many dear friends and colleagues in Japan today.  Major League Baseball extends its deepest condolences to all those who have been affected, and we have the families and friends of our players as well as our peers and business partners in our thoughts.

“We have been in communication with the members of our office in Tokyo.  Through our shared love of baseball for more than a century, Japan is a particularly special place to us, and we are deeply saddened by the disaster that has confronted the nation.

“Major League Baseball will certainly provide aid with the relief efforts in the days and weeks ahead.  We will do everything we can to help Japan.”